What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one, philosophy. But this consists in keeping the daemon within a man free from violence and unharmed, superior to pains and pleasures, doing nothing without a purpose... Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Էջ 104Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - 1892 - 287 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| 1894 - 916 էջ
...тарог; life is a warfare, and a stranger's sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion. What is that, then, ontinue. So James (iv. 14)— "For what te your lifef it Is even a МАЯ SHOULD STAND ERECT. Be cheerful also,... | |
| 1895 - 344 էջ
...14. What then is that which is able to conduct a man ? 15. It consists in keeping the spirit within free from violence and unharmed, superior to pains...need of another man's doing or not doing anything. 16. True liberty is not the power to choose evil. 17. Liberty is duty, Not license. 18. Without this... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1895 - 370 էջ
...happiness if wisely spent. How then is this great object to be secured ? What, says Marcus Aurelius, " What is that which is able to conduct a man ? One thing...philosophy. But this consists in keeping the daemon 2 within a man free from violence and unharmed, superior to pains and pleasures, doing nothing without... | |
| Henry Osborn Taylor - 1896 - 450 էջ
...is a dream and a vapor, and life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion. What then is that which is able to conduct a man ?...without a purpose, nor yet falsely and with hypocrisy, nor feeling the need of another man's doing or not doing anything; and besides, accepting all that... | |
| Frederick James Gould - 1897 - 304 էջ
...is a dream and vapour, and life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion. What, then, is that which is able to conduct a man...one — philosophy. But this consists in keeping the spirit within a man free from violence and unharmed, superior to pains and pleasures, doing nothing... | |
| 1899 - 406 էջ
...words of Epictetus, if in truth we feel the need of going to another for the expression of a thought : "What, then, is that which is able to conduct a man...one — philosophy. But this consists in keeping the spirit within free from violence and unharmed, superior to pains and pleasures, doing nothing without... | |
| 1897 - 308 էջ
...vapour ; life is a warfare, and a stranger's sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion. What is that, then, which is able to conduct a man ? One thing, and only one, philosophy. — Marcus Antoninus, or Aurclius. Some of them draw down to earth all things from heaven and the unseen... | |
| Helen Mathers - 1898 - 476 էջ
...austere life of sweet poverty, of few wants, of peace. And as a great thinker has nobly said, " What is that which is able to conduct a man ? One thing...pains and pleasures, doing nothing without a purpose, yet not falsely and with hypocrisy, not feeling the need of another man's doing, or not doing anything."... | |
| Friedrich Paulsen, Frank Thilly - 1899 - 784 էջ
...is a dream and vapor, and life is a warfare, and a stranger's sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion. What, then, is that which is able to conduct a man...But this consists in keeping the daemon within a man 1 (See the Encheiridion or Manual, 8, 18, 15, 21, Eng. translation by Long.] * [Eng. translation by... | |
| Arthur Bingham Walkley - 1899 - 304 էջ
...is a dream and vapour, and life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion. What then is that which is able to conduct a man ? One thing and only one, philosophy." Turn from this solution of the fastidious, " selfregarding '' scholar to Tolstoy's answer. For him... | |
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