John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Plutarch. (A.D. 46?–A.D. c. 120) (continued) |
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| Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does. |
| Which are the most crafty, Water or Land Animals? 7. |
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| For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. 1 |
| Against Colotes. |
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| Simonides calls painting silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting. |
| Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or Learned. 3. |
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| As Meander says, “For our mind is God;” and as Heraclitus, “Man’s genius is a deity.” |
| Platonic Questions. i. |
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| Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world. |
| Platonic Questions. viii. 4. |
| Epictetus. (A.D. c. 50–c. 138) |
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| To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. |
| Discourses. Chap. ii. |
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| Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by it, but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly without our own control. |
| Discourses. Chap. vi. |
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| In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles. |
| Discourses. Chap xi. |
| Note 1. See Pope, Quotation 113. [back] |