Select Essays of Dio ChrysostomR. Phillips, 1800 - 256 psl. |
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... reasons , crafty , in- sidious , mean , self - willed , an aggrandiser of the vicious , envying the good , not susceptible of instruction , regarding no man as sufficiently respectable to be his friend , and friendless in reality - such ...
... reasons , crafty , in- sidious , mean , self - willed , an aggrandiser of the vicious , envying the good , not susceptible of instruction , regarding no man as sufficiently respectable to be his friend , and friendless in reality - such ...
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... reason is more unwelcome as the unfortunate , on the other hand , support life with greater uneasiness , and hold themselves in constant readiness for their departure ; but tyrants in both these cases are unhappier than other men ; for ...
... reason is more unwelcome as the unfortunate , on the other hand , support life with greater uneasiness , and hold themselves in constant readiness for their departure ; but tyrants in both these cases are unhappier than other men ; for ...
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... reason ; and what is near , because it is about his person . From the remote , he is expecting war ; from those at hand , conspiracy . Peace he regards as inex- pedient , because it gives leisure to his subjects ; and war , because they ...
... reason ; and what is near , because it is about his person . From the remote , he is expecting war ; from those at hand , conspiracy . Peace he regards as inex- pedient , because it gives leisure to his subjects ; and war , because they ...
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... Reason , who would set us free , and rescue us from our torments . Yet , what is more abject than a man in sorrow ? What spectacle so degrading ? For this affection ap- parently reaches even to the body , by contract- ing it , and ...
... Reason , who would set us free , and rescue us from our torments . Yet , what is more abject than a man in sorrow ? What spectacle so degrading ? For this affection ap- parently reaches even to the body , by contract- ing it , and ...
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... reason then , the foremost subject of your grief and apprehension should be , The incertitude of human things . But , if you take this also into your considera- tion , that the term of life is momentary and al- most nothing ; that the ...
... reason then , the foremost subject of your grief and apprehension should be , The incertitude of human things . But , if you take this also into your considera- tion , that the term of life is momentary and al- most nothing ; that the ...
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