The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius AntoninusG. Bell, 1901 - 216 pages |
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... rational Christians admitted no fellowship with them . " Some of these heretics , " says Clemens , “ show their impiety and cowardice by loving their lives , saying that the knowledge of the really existing God is true testimony ...
... rational Christians admitted no fellowship with them . " Some of these heretics , " says Clemens , “ show their impiety and cowardice by loving their lives , saying that the knowledge of the really existing God is true testimony ...
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... rational social animal , just as his virtue and his vice lie not in passivity , but in activity " ( Ix . 16 ) . The emperor Antoninus was a practical moralist . From his youth he followed a laborious discipline , and though his high ...
... rational social animal , just as his virtue and his vice lie not in passivity , but in activity " ( Ix . 16 ) . The emperor Antoninus was a practical moralist . From his youth he followed a laborious discipline , and though his high ...
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... rational , " or perhaps sometimes " reasonable , ” as I have translated voepós by the word " intellectual . " Every man who has thought and has read any philosophical writings knows the difficulty of finding words to express certain ...
... rational , " or perhaps sometimes " reasonable , ” as I have translated voepós by the word " intellectual . " Every man who has thought and has read any philosophical writings knows the difficulty of finding words to express certain ...
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... rational animal man alone has a rational , intelligent soul ( ψυχὴ λογική , νοερά ) . Antoninus insists on this continu- ally : God is in man , " and so we must constantly attend to the divinity within us , for it is only in this way ...
... rational animal man alone has a rational , intelligent soul ( ψυχὴ λογική , νοερά ) . Antoninus insists on this continu- ally : God is in man , " and so we must constantly attend to the divinity within us , for it is only in this way ...
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... rational animal the same act is according to nature and according to reason . " ( vII . 11. ) That which is done contrary to reason is also an act contrary to nature , to the whole nature , though it is certainly conformable to some ...
... rational animal the same act is according to nature and according to reason . " ( vII . 11. ) That which is done contrary to reason is also an act contrary to nature , to the whole nature , though it is certainly conformable to some ...
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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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