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... wise Men , ch . 23 . Or rather Marcus Livius Drusus , the famous tribune of the people , who died anno 662 , at Rome , after having , by his ambition , fomented a dangerous war in Italy , of which Florus treats , lib . iii . cap . 17 ...
... wise Men , ch . 23 . Or rather Marcus Livius Drusus , the famous tribune of the people , who died anno 662 , at Rome , after having , by his ambition , fomented a dangerous war in Italy , of which Florus treats , lib . iii . cap . 17 ...
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... wise man ; therefore no wise man is a drunkard . Is this hitting the mark ? I am pleased to see that these first rate geniuses can- not divest themselves of their fellowship with us . With all their pretended perfections , they are ...
... wise man ; therefore no wise man is a drunkard . Is this hitting the mark ? I am pleased to see that these first rate geniuses can- not divest themselves of their fellowship with us . With all their pretended perfections , they are ...
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... wise man visits his dying friend almost as much at the end of twenty - five years as in the first year ; and , according to Epicurus , altogether as much , for he did not think the foresight of troubles , or their duration , an ...
... wise man visits his dying friend almost as much at the end of twenty - five years as in the first year ; and , according to Epicurus , altogether as much , for he did not think the foresight of troubles , or their duration , an ...
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... wise discourses . I am at this present time in an- other state . The terms of old age only give me too much warnings , preach to me , and make me grow wiser . From an excessive sprightliness , I am sunk into excessive gravity , which is ...
... wise discourses . I am at this present time in an- other state . The terms of old age only give me too much warnings , preach to me , and make me grow wiser . From an excessive sprightliness , I am sunk into excessive gravity , which is ...
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... wise Idle reports before his health to prize . Pleasure is a quality of very little ambition . It thinks itself rich enough , without any mixture of reputation with it , and is best pleased in obscurity . That young man who should ...
... wise Idle reports before his health to prize . Pleasure is a quality of very little ambition . It thinks itself rich enough , without any mixture of reputation with it , and is best pleased in obscurity . That young man who should ...
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Seite 35 - I pass away most of the Days of my Life, and most of the Hours of the Day.
Seite 300 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Seite 256 - But such a companion should be chosen and acquired from your first setting out. There can be no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind, that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to communicate it to.
Seite 132 - Frigidus in Venerem senior, frustraque laborem Ingratum trahit ; et, si quando ad proelia ventum est, Ut quondam in stipulis magnus sine viribus ignis, Incassum furit.
Seite 320 - Nor is the profit small, the peasant makes, Who smooths with harrows, or who pounds with rakes, The crumbling clods: nor Ceres, from on high, Regards his...
Seite 125 - quando artibus' inquit 'honestis nullus in urbe locus, nulla emolumenta laborum, res hodie minor est here quam fuit atque eadem eras deteret exiguis aliquid, proponimus illuc ire, fatigatas ubi Daedalus exuit alas, 25 dum nova canities, dum prima et recta senectus, dum superest Lachesi quod torqueat et pedibus me porto meis nullo dextram subeunte bacillo...
Seite 239 - Tis the supreme quality of a woman, which a man ought to seek before any other, as the only dowry that must ruin or preserve our houses. Let men say what they will according to the experience I have learned, I require in married women the economical virtue above all other virtues...
Seite 365 - nature," "pleasure," "circle," "substitution." The question is one of words, and is answered in the same way. "A stone is a body." But if you pressed on: "And what is a body?"— "Substance."— "And what is substance?
Seite 268 - ... fortuitous, and introduced for want of heed. Tis the indiligent reader who loses my subject, and not I; there will always be found some words or other in a corner, that is to the purpose, though it lie very close.
Seite 310 - A quick and earnest way of speaking as mine is, is apt to run into hyperbole. There is nothing to which men commonly are more inclined, than to give way to their own opinions.