The Academic questions, treatise De finibus, and Tusculan disputations of M.T. Cicero, tr. by C.D. Yonge |
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able ACAD Academy according to nature admit Anaxagoras Antiochus appear approve Arcesilas argue arguments Aristippus Aristo Aristotle assert Athens body born Carneades Cato Catulus certainly chief Chrysippus Cicero Clitomachus comprehended consider consistent Crantor Cyrenaics death Democritus deny desire despise difference discourse discussion dispute divine doctrine duty Ennius Epicureans Epicurus everything evil excellent exist explained false fear feel follow fortune freedom from pain glory Gods greatest Greeks grief happy honourable imagine kind knowledge labour Latin learned live Lucullus lust manner means mind miserable motion natural philosophy never object opinion perceived perception Peripatetics perturbations Philo philosophers Plato pleasure possible praise principles proceed pupil Pyrrho Pythagoras question reason recollection referred replied sake senses Socrates sort soul speak Speusippus Stoics sufficient Theophrastus things thought tion Torquatus true truth Varro virtue whole wisdom wise wish words Xenocrates Xenophanes Zeno
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Página 286 - Lycamben. 25 ac ne me foliis ideo brevioribus ornes quod timui mutare modos et carminis artem, temperat Archilochi Musam pede mascula Sappho, temperat Alcaeus, sed rebus et ordine dispar, nec socerum quaerit quem versibus oblinat atris, 30 nec sponsae laqueum famoso carmine nectit.
Página 337 - ... to be an evil, which is an appointment of the immortal gods, or of nature, the common parent of all. For it is not by hazard or without design that we have a being here...
Página 327 - Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore, To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee And sophists, madly vain of dubious lore ; How sweet it were in concert to adore With those who made our mortal labours light ! To hear each voice we fear'd to hear no more ! Behold each mighty shade reveal'd to sight, The Bactrian, Samian sage, and all who taught the right ! IX.
Página 454 - Several men, being sent in with scythes, cleared the way, and made an opening for us. When we could get at it, and were come near to the front of the pedestal, I found the inscription, though the latter parts of all the verses were effaced almost half away. Thus one of the noblest cities of Greece, and one which at one time likewise had been very celebrated for learning, had known nothing of the monument of its greatest genius, if it had not been discovered to them by a native of Arpinum.
Página 390 - Greece honors not with solemn fasts the dead : Enough, when death demands the brave, to pay The tribute of a melancholy day. One chief with patience to the grave resign'd, Our care devolves on others left behind.
Página 264 - Oh stay, O pride of Greece! Ulysses, stay! Oh cease thy course, and listen to our lay ! Blest is the man ordain'd our voice to hear, The song instructs the soul, and charms the ear. Approach! thy soul shall into raptures rise! Approach! and learn new wisdom from the wise!
Página 114 - ... wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquillity and peace...
Página 171 - What greater ills hereafter can you bear? Resume your courage, and dismiss your care. An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of fate.
Página iv - Herodotus), with that of an inspired teacher, prophet, and worker of miracles — approaching to and sometimes even confounded with the gods, — and employing all these gifts to found a new special order of brethren bound together by religious rites and observances peculiar to themselves. In his prominent vocation, analogous to that of Epimenides, Orpheus, or Melampus, he appears as the revealer of a mode of life calculated to raise his disciples above the level of mankind, and to recommend them...
Página 337 - ... of life, was to fall into an eternal evil by death. Let us rather infer, that we have a retreat and haven prepared for us, which I wish we could make for with crowded sails ; but though the winds should not serve, yet we shall of course gain it, though somewhat later.