The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius AntoninusG. Bell, 1901 - 216 pages |
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... pleasure and unworthy of his station . Antoninus however bore with him , and it is said that Verus had sense enough to pay to his colleague the respect due to his character . A virtuous emperor and a loose partner lived together in ...
... pleasure and unworthy of his station . Antoninus however bore with him , and it is said that Verus had sense enough to pay to his colleague the respect due to his character . A virtuous emperor and a loose partner lived together in ...
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... pleasures , doing nothing without a purpose nor yet falsely and with hypocrisy , not feeling the need of another man's doing or not doing any- thing ; and besides , accepting all that happens and all that is allotted , as coming from ...
... pleasures , doing nothing without a purpose nor yet falsely and with hypocrisy , not feeling the need of another man's doing or not doing any- thing ; and besides , accepting all that happens and all that is allotted , as coming from ...
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... pleasures . In a word , the views of Antoninus on this matter , however his expressions may vary , are exactly what Bishop Butler expresses , when he speaks of " the natural supremacy of re- flection or conscience , " of the faculty ...
... pleasures . In a word , the views of Antoninus on this matter , however his expressions may vary , are exactly what Bishop Butler expresses , when he speaks of " the natural supremacy of re- flection or conscience , " of the faculty ...
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... pleasure ; and so we must be content , for we cannot alter the will of Zeus . One of the Greek commentators asks how must we reconcile this doctrine with what we find in the first book of the Odyssey , where the king of the gods says ...
... pleasure ; and so we must be content , for we cannot alter the will of Zeus . One of the Greek commentators asks how must we reconcile this doctrine with what we find in the first book of the Odyssey , where the king of the gods says ...
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... pleasure , all these things equally happen to good and bad men , being things which make us neither better nor worse . Therefore they are neither good nor evil . ” The Ethical part of Antoninus ' Philosophy fellows from his general ...
... pleasure , all these things equally happen to good and bad men , being things which make us neither better nor worse . Therefore they are neither good nor evil . ” The Ethical part of Antoninus ' Philosophy fellows from his general ...
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2nd Edition according to nature Antoninus Pius Apology art thou Avidius Cassius body Christians Commodus conformable consider constitution death deity Dion Cassius divinity dost thou Edited by Temple emperor English Engravings Epictetus Eusebius evil exist G. A. Aitken Gataker give gods Greek Hadrian happens to thee harm Heraclitus History Illustrations intelligence Julius Cæsar justice Justinus kind let thy letter look manner matter meaning Melitene notion observe opinion Orosius pain passage philosophy Plato pleasure Portraits praise principles Quadi rational animal reason religion Rescript Roman ruling faculty says shavings and cuttings social Socrates soul speaks Stoic substance Temple Scott things thou art thou didst thou dost thou hast thou shalt thou shouldst thou wilt thou wish thy mind thy power thyself tion Trajan Trans Translated truth universal nature Verus virtue whole wickedness William Hazlitt Woodcuts word wouldst wrong Zeus
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