Cicero's Three Books of Offices: Or, Moral Duties. Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a MagistrateHenry G. Bohn, 1856 - 342 pages |
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... senate . These are , that what is morally right ( honestum ) is alone good ; that the virtuous can want nothing for complete happiness ; that there are no de- grees either in crimes or good actions ; that every fool is mad ; that the ...
... senate . These are , that what is morally right ( honestum ) is alone good ; that the virtuous can want nothing for complete happiness ; that there are no de- grees either in crimes or good actions ; that every fool is mad ; that the ...
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... senate to settle a boundary between the people of Nola and those of Naples , counselled each of those people separately to do nothing covetously , and that each ought rather to draw back than advance . Both of them taking this advice ...
... senate to settle a boundary between the people of Nola and those of Naples , counselled each of those people separately to do nothing covetously , and that each ought rather to draw back than advance . Both of them taking this advice ...
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... of an exchange of prisoners , he swore that he would return . The first thing he did when he came to Rome was to deliver his opinion in the senate that the prisoners should not be restored ; and after CHAP . XIII . J 23 CICERO'S OFFICES .
... of an exchange of prisoners , he swore that he would return . The first thing he did when he came to Rome was to deliver his opinion in the senate that the prisoners should not be restored ; and after CHAP . XIII . J 23 CICERO'S OFFICES .
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... senate which was constituted by Solon . We may make the same observation with regard to Pausanias and Lysander amongst the Lacedemonians ; for all the addition of empire which their conquests are supposed to 38 [ BOOK I. CICERO'S OFFICES .
... senate which was constituted by Solon . We may make the same observation with regard to Pausanias and Lysander amongst the Lacedemonians ; for all the addition of empire which their conquests are supposed to 38 [ BOOK I. CICERO'S OFFICES .
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... senate , a whole people , cannot dispense from its paramount obligation . It requires no commentator to render it distinctly intelligible , nor is it different at Rome , and at Athens , at the pre- sent , and in ages to come ; but in ...
... senate , a whole people , cannot dispense from its paramount obligation . It requires no commentator to render it distinctly intelligible , nor is it different at Rome , and at Athens , at the pre- sent , and in ages to come ; but in ...
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Page 238 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
Page 172 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, 'Nunc dimittis' when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 263 - I CANNOT call Riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, im-pedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory.
Page 202 - Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons nor in their actions, nor in their times.
Page 252 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Page 256 - Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I choose for my devotions ; but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings that they forget the story, and can only relate to our awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that that hath passed.
Page 299 - The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
Page 172 - Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame and extinguisheth envy.
Page 5 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne.
Page 256 - ... the action of their senses. We must therefore say that there is something in us that is not in the jurisdiction of Morpheus...