Ancient Ideals: A Study of Intellectual and Spiritual Growth from Early Times to the Establishment of Christianity, Volumen1Columbia University Press, 1900 |
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Página 428 - Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus advenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias...
Página 243 - I would have you day by day fix your eyes upon the greatness of Athens, until you become filled with the love of her; and when you are impressed by the spectacle of her glory, reflect that this empire has been acquired by men who knew their duty and had the courage to do it...
Página 94 - For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
Página 436 - When human life to view lay foully prostrate upon earth crushed down under the weight of religion, who shewed her head from the quarters of heaven with hideous aspect lowering upon mortals, a man of Greece ventured first to lift up his mortal eyes to her face and first to withstand her to her face.
Página 256 - In sacrifices, feasts, dances, he is our lord — supplying kindness and banishing unkindness, giving friendship and forgiving enmity, the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods, desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him ; parent of delicacy, luxury, desire, fondness, softness, grace, regardful of the good, regardless of the evil. In every word, work, wish, fear — pilot, comrade, helper, saviour ; glory of gods and...
Página 259 - ... to two, and from two to all fair forms, and from fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is. This, my dear Socrates...
Página 97 - My age is now full ripe, my life draws to its close : I leave you, I depart, relying on myself alone ! Be earnest then, O brethren ! holy, full of thought ! Be steadfast in resolve ! Keep watch o'er your own hearts ! Who wearies not, but holds fast to this truth and law 1, Shall cross this sea of life, shall make an end of grief.
Página 97 - Therefore, O Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves. Be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to any one besides yourselves.
Página 86 - Let, therefore, no man love anything; loss of the beloved is evil. Those who love nothing, and hate nothing, have no fetters. 212. From pleasure comes grief, from pleasure comes fear ; he who is free from pleasure knows neither grief nor fear.
Página 92 - Bhikkhus. is the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering: (It ceases with) the complete cessation of this thirst a cessation which consists in the absence of every passion, with the abandoning of this thirst, with the doing away with it. with the deliverance from it. with the destruction of desire.