Ancient Ideals: A Study of Intellectual and Spiritual Growth from Early Times to the Establishment of Christianity, المجلد 1

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Macmillan, 1921
 

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الصفحة 237 - I would have you day by day fix your eyes upon the greatness of Athens, until you become filled with the love of her; and when you are impressed by the spectacle of her glory, reflect that this empire has been acquired by men who knew their duty and had the courage to do it...
الصفحة 92 - For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love — this is an old rule.
الصفحة 424 - When human life to view lay foully prostrate upon earth crushed down under the weight of religion, who shewed her head from the quarters of heaven with hideous aspect lowering upon mortals, a man of Greece ventured first to lift up his mortal eyes to her face and first to withstand her to her face.
الصفحة 248 - In sacrifices, feasts, dances, he is our lord — supplying kindness and banishing unkindness, giving friendship and forgiving enmity, the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods, desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him : parent of delicacy, luxury, desire, fondness, softness, grace, regardful of the good, regardless of the evil. In every word, work, wish, fear — pilot, comrade, helper, saviour; glory of gods and...
الصفحة 251 - ... to two, and from two to all fair forms, and from fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is. This, my dear Socrates...
الصفحة 95 - All component things must grow old. Work out your salvation with diligence. The final extinction of the Tathagata will take place before long. At the end of three months from this time the Tathagata will die !" 'My age is now full ripe, my life draws to its close: I leave you, I depart, relying on myself alone! Be earnest then, O brethren! holy, full of thought! Be steadfast in resolve ! Keep watch o'er your own hearts ! Who wearies not, but holds fast to this truth and law, Shall cross this sea...
الصفحة 95 - Therefore, O Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves. Be ye a refuge to yourselves, betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to any one besides yourselves.
الصفحة 416 - Et mutam nequiquam alloquerer cinerem, Quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum, Heu miser indigne frater adempte mihi. Nunc tamen interea haec prisco quae more parentum Tradita sunt tristi munere ad inferias, Accipe fraterno multum manantia fletu. Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.
الصفحة 84 - Let, therefore, no man love anything ; loss of the beloved is evil. Those who love nothing, and hate nothing, have no fetters. From pleasure comes grief, from pleasure comes fear; he who is free from pleasure knows neither grief nor fear.
الصفحة 84 - After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit.

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