 The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men's characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure...  The Republic of Plato - Page ccxxxivby Plato - 1888 - 379 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Plato - Philosophy - 1871 - 676 pages
...the complaint about relations, Socrates, the cause is to be sought, not in men's ages, but in their characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm and...happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but he who is of an opposite disposition will find youth and age equally a burden. I was delighted at his... | |
 | Plato - 1874 - 626 pages
...the complaint about relations, Socrates, the cause is to be sought, not in men's ages, but in their characters and tempers ; for he who is of a calm and...happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but he who is of an opposite disposition will find youth and age equally a burden. I was delighte<l at... | |
 | Education - 1892 - 700 pages
...the complaint about relations, Socrates, the cause is to be sought, not in men's ages, but in their characters and tempers ; for he who is of a calm and...happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but he who is of an opposite disposition will find youth and age equally a burden." This is pithy, " As... | |
 | Plato - 1892 - 796 pages
...he uttered them. Themistocles and the Seriphian. Republic I. CEFHALUS, SOCEATES. It is admitted that the old, if they are to be comfortable, must have...draw him out, that he might go on — Yes, Cephalus, I said ; but I rather suspect that people in general are not convinced by you when you speak thus ;... | |
 | Plato - 1892 - 794 pages
...passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are freed from the grasp not of 'one mach^iaster only, but of many. The truth is, Socrates, that these...draw him out, that he might go on — Yes, Cephalus, I said ; but I rather suspect that people in general are not convinced by you when you speak thus ;... | |
 | Education - 1893 - 578 pages
...the complaint about relations, Socrates, the cause is to be sought, not in men's ages, but in their characters and tempers ; for he who is of a calm and...happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but he who is of an opposite disposition will find youth and age equally a burden." This is pithy: "As... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Old age - 1895 - 232 pages
...the complaint about relations, Socrates, the cause is to be sought, not in men's ages, but in their characters and tempers ; for he who is of a calm and...happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but he who is of an opposite disposition will find youth and age equally a burden." Themistocles. A celebrated... | |
 | Plato - Education - 1897 - 506 pages
...the complaint about relations, Socrates, the cause is to be sought, not in men's ages, but in their characters and tempers ; for he who is of a calm and...happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but he who is of an opposite disposition will find youth and age equally a burden. I was delighted at his... | |
 | Plato, William Lowe Bryan, Charlotte Lowe Bryan - Education, Greek - 1898 - 338 pages
...the complaint about relations, Socrates, the cause is to be sought, not in men's ages, but in their characters and tempers ; for he who is of a calm and...happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but he who is of an opposite disposition will find youth and age equally a burden. I was delighted at his... | |
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