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3581And then he inquired, whether we were not all much taken by surprise at his having fainted?
3581And then, as they were holding his mouth open by force to give him a draught, he observed to M. de Belot:"An vivere tanti est?"
3581And then, when he caught the sound of my voice, he continued:"And art thou, my brother, likewise unwilling to see me at peace?
3581But was it not rather the fear of the operation for the stone, at that time really formidable?
3581Do you not perceive now that the help you give me has no other effect than that of lengthening my suffering?"
3581From Orleans, this 16th of February, in the morning[ 1588- 9?
3581Had I any, whom would it become so much as yourself to remove them?"
3581Have I not lived long enough?
3581He seemed to detect in my expression some inquietude at his words; and he exclaimed,"What, my brother, would you make me entertain apprehensions?
3581Why did you break the agreeable repose I was enjoying?
3581Will not that be soon at Paris, Sire?
3581dost thou then refuse me a place?"
3581who is it that teases me so?
3588Are not they then pleasant men who think they have rendered this fit for the people''s handling by translating it into the vulgar tongue?
3588Are they so impudent as to sue for remission without satisfaction and without penitence?
3588Are we assured that in Biscay and in Brittany there are enough competent judges of this affair to establish this translation into their own language?
3588But what shall we say of those who settle their whole course of life upon the profit and emolument of sins, which they know to be mortal?
3588Does the understanding of all therein contained only stick at words?
3588How many trades and vocations have we admitted and countenanced amongst us, whose very essence is vicious?
3588I do not more thoroughly sift myself in any other posture than this: what passion are we exempted from in it?
3588May I not confidently instance in those of Hannibal and his great rival Scipio?
3588Or, if he played at chess?
3588They took breath in their drinking, and watered their wine"Quis puer ocius Restinguet ardentis Falerni Pocula praetereunte lympha?"
3588Think you Jupiter himself would not cry out upon it?"
3588What can men say to the divine justice upon this subject?
3588Why should not I judge of Alexander at table, ranting and drinking at the prodigious rate he sometimes used to do?
3588["What boy will quickly come and cool the heat of the Falernian wine with clear water?"
3588and how fair an opportunity she herein gives every one to know and to make a right judgment of himself?
3588what string of his soul was not touched by this idle and childish game?
3582Dolus, an virtus, quis in hoste requirat?
3582Quis est enim, qui totum diem jaculans non aliquando collineet?
3582--Was it that the height of courage was so natural and familiar to this conqueror, that because he could not admire, he respected it the less?
3582--Who has not seen peevish gamesters chew and swallow the cards, and swallow the dice, in revenge for the loss of their money?
3582And the other, why he should attempt to kill him?
3582I] And how much less sociable is false speaking than silence?
3582Is it yet temperance and frugality to avoid expense and pleasure of which the use and knowledge are imperceptible to us?
3582Or was it that he conceived valour to be a virtue so peculiar to himself, that his pride could not, without envy, endure it in another?
3582Or was it that the natural impetuosity of his fury was incapable of opposition?
3582Some may condemn the freedom of those two soldiers who so roundly answered Nero to his beard; the one being asked by him why he bore him ill- will?
3582What causes of the misadventures that befall us do we not invent?
3582["Dost ask where thou shalt lie after death?
3582["For who shoots all day at butts that does not sometimes hit the white?"
3582["What matters whether by valour or by strategem we overcome the enemy?"
3582["Why, ruler of Olympus, hast thou to anxious mortals thought fit to add this care, that they should know by, omens future slaughter?...
3582says he,"would it, then, be a reputed cowardice to overcome them by giving ground?"
3582what is it that we do not lay the fault to, right or wrong, that we may have something to quarrel with?
3589I desire,says St. Paul,"to be with Christ,"and"who shall rid me of these bands?"
3589--Why dost thou complain of this world?
3589Are not you unjust, that, not to kill him without cause, do worse than kill him?
3589But''tis an old and pleasant question, whether the soul of a wise man can be overcome by the strength of wine?
3589How can he help your ignorance?
3589If it be vainglory for a man to publish his own virtues, why does not Cicero prefer the eloquence of Hortensius, and Hortensius that of Cicero?
3589Is it that we pretend to a reformation?
3589Is it to be imagined that an apoplexy will not stun Socrates as well as a porter?
3589Is this all thou canst do?
3589It being also asked of Agis, which way a man might live free?
3589Let him be as wise as he will, after all he is but a man; and than that what is there more frail, more miserable, or more nothing?
3589Of what does Socrates treat more largely than of himself?
3589Of what use are colours to him that knows not what he is to paint?
3589To what vanity does the good opinion we have of ourselves push us?
3589What are you thinking of?"
3589Why is not the jugular vein as much at our disposal as the median vein?
3589[ As to which Cassius pleasantly said:"What, shall I bear a tyrant, I who can not bear wine?"]
3589["Tell me, is it not madness, that one should die for fear of dying?"
3589what is she doing?
3589who but must conclude that these are wild sallies pushed on by a courage that has broken loose from its place?
3590And can a man ever enough exalt the value of a friend, in comparison with these civil ties?
3590Can there be any joy equal to this privation?
3590Do we desire to be beloved of our children?
3590Does Monsieur make any bargain, or prepare any despatch that does not please?
3590Does he turn away a servant?
3590For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?
3590For whom did I reserve the discovery of that singular affection I had for him in my soul?
3590Is it not a pious and a pleasing office of my life to be always upon my friend''s obsequies?
3590Must it be true, that to be a perfect good man, we must be so by an occult, natural, and universal propriety, without law, reason, or example?
3590Was it not he himself, who ought to have had all the pleasure of it, and all the obligation?
3590What can a man expect from a physician who writes of war, or from a mere scholar, treating of the designs of princes?
3590Will we remove from them all occasion of wishing our death though no occasion of so horrid a wish can either be just or excusable?
3590Would not Ariosto himself say?
3590["To whom no one is ill who can be good?
3590am I the better for being sensible of this; or am I the worse?
3585Quis accurat loquitur, nisi qui vult putide loqui?
3585And how many have I seen in my time totally brutified by an immoderate thirst after knowledge?
3585And what did the other man say?
3585Anything more remote from vanity?
3585But the most injurious do not say,"Why has he taken such a thing?
3585But what will become of our young gentleman, if he be attacked with the sophistic subtlety of some syllogism?
3585How much more decent would it be to see their classes strewed with green leaves and fine flowers, than with the bloody stumps of birch and willows?
3585If we give the names of monster and miracle to everything our reason can not comprehend, how many are continually presented before our eyes?
3585Is any man now living so impudent as to think himself comparable to them in virtue, piety, learning, judgment, or any kind of perfection?
3585Is there anything more delicate, more clear, more sprightly; than Pliny''s judgment, when he is pleased to set it to work?
3585Setting aside his learning, of which I make less account, in which of these excellences do any of us excel him?
3585Shall I here acquaint you with one faculty of my youth?
3585Shall it be of ignorance, simplicity, and facility; or of malice and imposture?
3585What profit shall he not reap as to the business of men, by reading the Lives of Plutarch?
3585Who is it that has disguised it thus, with this false, pale, and ghostly countenance?
3585Whoever asked his pupil what he thought of grammar and rhetoric, or of such and such a sentence of Cicero?
3585Why does he not give?"
3585Why has he not paid such an one?"
3585Will you know what I think of it?
3585["For who studies to speak accurately, that does not at the same time wish to perplex his auditory?"
3585but,"Why does he part with nothing?
3585the knowledge of the stars and the motion of the eighth sphere before their own:["What care I about the Pleiades or the stars of Taurus?"
3594But is it reason that, being so particular in my way of living, I should pretend to recommend myself to the public knowledge?
3594Concumbunt docte;"["In this language do they express their fears, their anger, their joys, their cares; in this pour out all their secrets; what more?
3594Does not he to whom you betray another, to whom you were as welcome as to himself, know that you will at another time do as much for him?
3594Had we not reason to hope such an issue in the person of the late Bishop of Orleans, the Sieur de Morvilliers?
3594How a cause?
3594How high did he stretch the consideration of his own particular duty?
3594How often do we torment our mind with anger or sorrow by such shadows, and engage ourselves in fantastic passions that impair both soul and body?
3594Inquire of yourself where is the object of this mutation?
3594Is it not to build a wall without stone or brick, or some such thing, to write books without learning and without art?
3594Is it reason that even the arts themselves should make an advantage of our natural stupidity and weakness?
3594Is this to hit the white?
3594It makes this person disown his former virtue and continency:"Quae mens est hodie, cur eadem non puero fait?
3594Or"Do so learned writings proceed from a man of so weak conversation?"
3594Philippides, in my opinion, answered King Lysimachus very discreetly, who, asking him what of his estate he should bestow upon him?
3594To what more just necessity does he reserve himself?
3594To whom ought not treachery to be hateful, when Tiberius refused it in a thing of so great importance to him?
3594Vel cur his animis incolumes non redeunt genae?"
3594What need have they of anything but to live beloved and honoured?
3594Who is ignorant of Fabricius sentence against the physician of Pyrrhus?
3594Whoever shall ask a man,"What interest have you in this siege?"
3594["What my mind is, why was it not the same, when I was a boy?
3594is there anything but us in nature which inanity sustains, over which it has power?
3594or why do not the cheeks return to these feelings?"
3592He will repent it,we say, and because we have given him a pistol- shot through the head, do we imagine he will repent?
3592And though nobody should read me, have I wasted time in entertaining myself so many idle hours in so pleasing and useful thoughts?
3592Are there not some constitutions that feed upon it?
3592But whom shall we believe in the report he makes of himself in so corrupt an age?
3592Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and would we endure a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient?
3592Do I start?
3592Do I tremble with fury?
3592Does either my face, my colour, or my voice give any manifestation of my being moved?
3592He who stays to see the author die, whose writings he intends to question, what does he say but that he is weak in his aggressiveness?
3592How often has this work diverted me from troublesome thoughts?
3592If we do not betimes begin to see to ourselves, when shall we have provided for so many wounds and evils wherewith we abound?
3592In giving myself so continual and so exact an account of myself, have I lost my time?
3592Is it not meanness of spirit that renders them so pliable to all extremities?
3592May it not also be that this reproach seems to imply cowardice and feebleness of heart?
3592Our extremest pleasure has some sort of groaning and complaining in it; would you not say that it is dying of pain?
3592What could he do less?
3592What if I listen to books a little more attentively than ordinary, since I watch if I can purloin anything that may adorn or support my own?
3592What is it that makes tyrants so sanguinary?
3592What is this but cowardice?
3592What needed he to have done more than to fly back to his friends across the river?
3592Who does not see that in a state all depends upon their nurture and bringing up?
3592Who ever lived so long and so far into death?
3592["Even felicity, unless it moderate itself, oppresses?"
3592of which can there be a more manifest sign than to eat a man''s own words-- nay, to lie against a man''s own knowledge?
3592said he,"must this bit of a woman also serve for a testimony to my rules?"
3592should he have stood still, and if chance would have ordered it so, have seen him he was come thither to defend killed before his face?
3592whoever died so erect, or more like a man?
3584--what it is to do and to suffer?
3584And are there any worse sorts of vices than those committed against a man''s own conscience, and the natural light of his own reason?
3584And what loss would this be, if they neither instruct us to think well nor to do well?
3584But what becomes of all the rest, under what ensigns do they march, in what quarter do they lie?
3584Can there be worse husbandry than to set up so many certain and knowing vices against errors that are only contested and disputable?
3584Do they hear their prince, or a king commended?
3584Do you boast of your nobility, as being descended from seven rich successive ancestors?
3584Do you repute any man the greater for being lord of two thousand acres of land?
3584ETEXT EDITOR''S BOOKMARKS: A parrot would say as much as that Agesilaus, what he thought most proper for boys to learn?
3584His wife Livia, seeing him in this perplexity:"Will you take a woman''s counsel?"
3584Is he a poet?
3584Is it to be emperor?
3584Is thy life of so great value, that so many mischiefs must be done to preserve it?"
3584It is not above three weeks that I have known you; what inducement, then, could move you to attempt my death?"
3584Men are apt presently to inquire, does such a one understand Greek or Latin?
3584Moreover, has not custom made a republic of women separately by themselves?
3584One asking to this purpose, Agesilaus, what he thought most proper for boys to learn?
3584Testimony of the truth from minds prepossessed by custom?
3584We can say, Cicero says thus; these were the manners of Plato; these are the very words of Aristotle: but what do we say ourselves?
3584What do we judge?
3584What has she not the power to impose upon our judgments and beliefs?
3584What, hast thou neither means nor power in any other thing, but only to undertake Caesar?
3584Would you make them judges of a lawsuit, of the actions of men?
3584["For who is there that antiquity, attested and confirmed by the fairest monuments, can not move?"
3584has it not put arms into their hands, and made them raise armies and fight battles?
3584must there be no end of thy revenges and cruelties?
3584or does he write in prose?
3584or have I, through private hatred or malice, offended any kinsman or friend of yours?
3584what animals law and justice are?
3591An quidquam stultius, quam, quos singulos contemnas, eos aliquid putare esse universes?
3591Faciasne, quod olim Mutatus Polemon? 3591 Falsus honor juvat, et mendax infamia terret Quem nisi mendosum et mendacem?"
3591Non levior cippus nunc imprimit ossa? 3591 What, shall so much knowledge be lost, with so much damage to the world, without a particular concern of the destinies?
3591And besides, though I had a particular distinction by myself, what can it distinguish, when I am no more?
3591And, besides, for whom do you write?
3591Can it point out and favour inanity?
3591Do comrades praise?
3591Do we expect that at every musket- shot we receive, and at every hazard we run, there must be a register ready to record it?
3591Does so rare and exemplary a soul cost no more the killing than one that is common and of no use to the public?
3591For who ever thought he wanted sense?
3591Has not this example of a gentleman very well known, some air of philosophy in it?
3591How many brave individual actions are buried in the crowd of a battle?
3591How many very wantonly pleasant sports spring from the most decent and modest language of the works on love?
3591How?
3591I think my opinions are good and sound, but who does not think the same of his own?
3591In these, how many soldiers''boys are companions of our glory?
3591Is it reasonable that the life of a wise man should depend upon the judgment of fools?
3591Is there no more in it, then, but only slily and with circumspection to do ill?
3591Nunc non e manibus illis, Nunc non a tumulo fortunataque favilla, Nascentur violae?"
3591To what do Caesar and Alexander owe the infinite grandeur of their renown but to fortune?
3591Whoever found such an effect of our discipline?
3591Why did Poppea invent the use of a mask to hide the beauties of her face, but to enhance it to her lovers?
3591Why do they cover with so many hindrances, one over another, the parts where our desires and their own have their principal seat?
3591Why have they veiled, even below the heels, those beauties that every one desires to show, and that every one desires to see?
3591["Does the tomb press with less weight upon my bones?
3591["What is glory, be it as glorious as it may be, if it be no more than glory?"
3591["Will you do what reformed Polemon did of old?
3583''Cur amplius addere quaeris, Rursum quod pereat male, et ingratum occidat omne?'' 3583 Cur non ut plenus vita; conviva recedis?"
3583Does not all the world dance the same brawl that you do? 3583 Shall I exchange for you this beautiful contexture of things?
3583To what end should you endeavour to draw back, if there be no possibility to evade it? 3583 --widow to the greatest king in Europe, did she not come to die by the hand of an executioner? 3583 And what matters it, when it shall happen, since it is inevitable? 3583 And, if company will make it more pleasant or more easy to you, does not all the world go the self- same way? 3583 But what? 3583 Did you ever see anything so subdued, so changed, and so confounded? 3583 Do we do thee any wrong? 3583 Do you think they can relish it? 3583 Does she always will what we would have her to do? 3583 Does she not often will what we forbid her to will, and that to our manifest prejudice? 3583 Does she suffer herself, more than any of the rest, to be governed and directed by the results of our reason? 3583 Fear is more importunate and insupportable than death itself Fear to lose a thing, which being lost, can not be lamented? 3583 For what human means will ever attain its enjoyment? 3583 How many more have died before they arrived at thy age How many several ways has death to surprise us? 3583 How many several ways has death to surprise us? 3583 Is it for thee to govern us, or for us to govern thee? 3583 Is it possible you can imagine never to arrive at the place towards which you are continually going? 3583 Is it reasonable so long to fear a thing that will so soon be despatched? 3583 Is there anything that does not grow old, as well as you? 3583 Is there nothing but these veins and muscles that swell and flag without the consent, not only of the will, but even of our knowledge also? 3583 Not only the argument of reason invites us to it-- for why should we fear to lose a thing, which being lost, can not be lamented? 3583 The remedy the vulgar use is not to think on''t; but from what brutish stupidity can they derive so gross a blindness? 3583 To what end do we avoid the servile attendance of courts, if we bring the same trouble home to our own private houses? 3583 What affliction could be greater or more just than that of Pompey''s friends, who, in his ship, were spectators of that horrible murder? 3583 What matter is it, you will say, which way it comes to pass, provided a man does not terrify himself with the expectation? 3583 What remains to an old man of the vigour of his youth and better days? 3583 Who can complain of being comprehended in the same destiny, wherein all are involved? 3583 Why dost thou complain of me and of destiny? 3583 Why dost thou fear thy last day? 3583 [Why for so short a life tease ourselves with so many projects?"
3583["Why not depart from life as a sated guest from a feast?
3583["Why seek to add longer life, merely to renew ill- spent time, and be again tormented?"
3583and that the fatal end of their journey being continually before their eyes, would not alter and deprave their palate from tasting these regalios?
3583and with what assurance deliver their conjectures for current pay?
3583how be responsible for the opinions of men they do not know?
3583who has assured unto thee the term of life?
3596Et supra bellum Thebanum et funera Trojae Non alias alii quoque res cecinere poetae?
3596Is this he,say they,"was he no wiser when he was there?
3596What shall I write to you, sirs, or how should I write to you, or what should I not write to you at this time? 3596 Am I not myself in fault? 3596 And then, what do you think is the best thing in your work? 3596 But what, if I take things otherwise than they are? 3596 Could it be for a testimony of their justice or their zeal to religion? 3596 Do princes satisfy themselves with so little? 3596 Do you ask me, whence comes the custom of blessing those who sneeze? 3596 Have they to do with the stupidest of all their subjects? 3596 How many ridiculous things, in my own opinion, do I say and answer every day that comes over my head? 3596 How should he satisfy immoderate desires, that still increase as they are fulfilled? 3596 If I bite my own lips, what ought others to do? 3596 Is there more noise or confusion in the scolding of herring- wives than in the public disputes of men of this profession? 3596 Let us always have this saying of Plato in our mouths:Do not I think things unsound, because I am not sound in myself?
3596Miso, one of the seven sages, of a Timonian and Democritic humour, being asked,"what he laughed at, being alone?"
3596Take a master of arts, and confer with him: why does he not make us sensible of this artificial excellence?
3596To what end do you go about to inquire of him, who knows nothing to the purpose?
3596To what purpose?
3596What greater victory do you expect than to make your enemy see and know that he is not able to encounter you?
3596What if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it often falls out?
3596What if the plainest reasons are the best seated?
3596What impressions will not the weakness of human belief admit?
3596What of that?
3596What share have they, then, in the engagement, where every one is on their side?
3596What will it be in the end?
3596What will the angry man answer?
3596Where are all her fair promises?
3596Who ever enhanced the price of merchandise at such a rate?
3596Who has got understanding by his logic?
3596Wilt thou tamper with them to win their affections?
3596["Why before the Theban war and the destruction of Troy, have not other poets sung other events?"
3596am I in a bath?
3596am I more at ease than thou?"
3596and how the indigent Barrus?
3596and then how many more, according to the opinion of others?
3596and why does he not captivate women and ignoramuses, as we are, with admiration at the steadiness of his reasons and the beauty of his order?
3596hast thou a mind that thy subjects shall look upon thee as their cash- keeper and not as their king?
3596is it grace or the matter, the invention, the judgment, or the learning?
3596is it this part or that?
3596magnum documentum, ne patriam rein Perdere guis velit;"["Dost thou not see how ill the son of Albus lives?
3596may not my observations reflect upon myself?"
3596the meanest, lowest, and most beaten more adapted to affairs?
3596utque Barrus inops?
3596why does a man, who has so much advantage in matter and treatment, mix railing, indiscretion, and fury in his disputations?
3596why does he not sway and persuade us to what he will?
3598Why, then,pursued the other,"what difficult and exemplary thing dost thou think thou doest in embracing that snow?"
3598''Tis always such; but how slender hold has the resolution of dying?
3598Am I sensible of her assaults?
3598And was not the graving of a seal the first and principal cause of the greatest commotion that this machine of the world ever underwent?
3598Besides, the method of arguing, of which Socrates here makes use, is it not equally admirable both in simplicity and vehemence?
3598But then, what example of resolution did we not see in the simplicity of all this people?
3598How much easier is it not to enter in than it is to get out?
3598I have a favourable aspect, both in form and in interpretation:"Quid dixi, habere me?
3598I have no need of goods of which I can make no use; of what use is knowledge to him who has lost his head?
3598I understand it not; it may be: is it true?"
3598If a woman be a strumpet, must it needs follow that she has a foul smell?
3598Is not simplicity, as we take it, cousin- german to folly and a quality of reproach?
3598Is there any who desires to be sick, that he may see his physician at work?
3598Mene salis placidi vultum, fluctusque quietos Ignorare?"
3598Shall we not dare to say of a thief that he has a handsome leg?
3598Should I be ignorant of the dangers of that seeming placid sea, those now quiet waves?"
3598Should I have died less cheerfully before I had read Cicero''s Tusculan Quastiones?
3598That their souls, in being more gross and dull, are less penetrable and not so easily moved?
3598They commonly begin thus:"How is such a thing done?"
3598To what end do we so arm ourselves with this harness of science?
3598Was not this to nestle and settle himself to sleep at greater ease?
3598What did King Cotys do?
3598What is it we may not reason of at this rate?
3598What would men say of the other Athenians?
3598What, if the truest are not always the most commodious to man, being of so wild a composition?
3598Whereas they should say,"Is such a thing done?"
3598Will they have their faults less, for being of longer continuance; and that of an unjust beginning, the sequel can be just?
3598Yet had fortune never so little favoured the design, who knows to what height this juggling might have at last arrived?
3598["Should I place confidence in this monster?
3598["What did I say?
3598["What praise is that which is to be got in the market- place( meat market)?"
3598and that in this universal republic, it conduces more to birth and augmentation than to loss or ruin?
3598and would not the physician deserve to be whipped who should wish the plague amongst us, that he might put his art in practice?
3598how many who desire to die, or who die without alarm or regret?
3598that I have?
3598that I have?
3593--"Would I?"
3593And Antisthenes the Stoic, being very sick, and crying out,"Who will deliver me from these evils?"
3593And after the cure is performed, how can he assure himself that it was not because the disease had arrived at its period or an effect of chance?
3593And if even those of the best operation in some measure offend us, what must those do that are totally misapplied?
3593And to say the truth, of all this diversity and confusion of prescriptions, what other end and effect is there after all, but to purge the belly?
3593And when the rule is concluded, by whom, I pray you?
3593And who can imagine but that, in this liquid confusion, these faculties must corrupt, confound, and spoil one another?
3593As to the rest, was ever soul so vigilant, so active, and so patient of labour as his?
3593Besides what glory can be compared to his?
3593Do the doctors themselves show us more felicity and duration in their own lives, that may manifest to us some apparent effect of their skill?
3593Do they not, from a continual and perfect health, draw the argument of some great sickness to ensue?
3593Does he parallel the victories, feats of arms, the force of the armies conducted by Pompey, and his triumphs, with those of Agesilaus?
3593Dost thou ask, Faustinus, the cause of this so sudden death?
3593How many doubts and controversies have they amongst themselves upon the interpretation of urines?
3593How often do we see physicians impute the death of their patients to one another?
3593I whisper in a waiting- woman''s or secretary''s ear:"How were they, how did they live together?"
3593Is Nero''s cruelty unknown to us?
3593Is anything of another''s actions or faculties proposed to him?
3593Is there any form from which vice can not, if it will, extract occasion to exercise itself, one way or another?
3593Of so many millions, there are but three men who take upon them to record their experiments: must fortune needs just hit one of these?
3593Our children are still called by names that he invented above three thousand years ago; who does not know Hector and Achilles?
3593Tam subitae mortis causam, Faustine, requiris?
3593What are become of all the provisions we have so many years laid up against the accidents of fortune?
3593What could we expect from him who had murdered his mother and his brother, but that he should put his tutor to death who had brought him up?"
3593What did Panaetius leave unsaid when he called Plato the Homer of the philosophers?
3593What if another, and a hundred others, have made contrary experiments?
3593What is this but flatly to abuse our simplicity?
3593What matter the wringing of our hands, if we do not wring our thoughts?
3593When Plutarch compares them, he does not, for all that, make them equal; who could more learnedly and sincerely have marked their distinctions?
3593Where can that drop of fluid matter contain that infinite number of forms?
3593Who ever saw one physician approve of another''s prescription, without taking something away, or adding something to it?
3593Why should philosophy, which only has respect to life and effects, trouble itself about these external appearances?
3593Why?
3593Will you have one example of the ancient controversy in physic?
3593and his followers be pardoned, who send so many souls from life to death?
3593and how so concealed, that till five- and- forty years after, I did not begin to be sensible of it?
3593for who would dare to contemn things so far fetched, and sought out at the hazard of so long and dangerous a voyage?
3593how could we excuse the error they so oft fall into, of taking fox for marten?
3593if I should run the same fortune that Caecina has done, would you that your daughter, my wife, should do the same?"
3593or by virtue of his grandmother''s prayers?
3593or the operation of something else that he had eaten, drunk, or touched that day?
3593otherwise, whence should the continual debates we see amongst them about the knowledge of the disease proceed?
3593who does not give up himself to the mercy of whoever has the impudence to promise him a cure?
3597Have you not more easy diversions at home? 3597 Where do you think to live without disturbance?"
3597''Tis a common saying, but of a terrible extent: what does it not comprehend?
3597Are there not more below your family in good ease than there are above it in eminence?
3597Are they not still wives and friends to the dead who are not at the end of this but in the other world?
3597But may not this saying of that excellent painter of woman''s humours be here introduced, to show the reason of their complaints?
3597But where is there not?
3597Do they meet with a compatriot in Hungary?
3597Dost thou not see that this world we live in keeps all its sight confined within, and its eyes open to contemplate itself?
3597For whom should I do it?
3597Has not the royal majesty been more than once there entertained with all its train?
3597He who, on so just an occasion, has no contentment, where will he think to find it?
3597How many gallant men have rather chosen to lose their lives than to be debtors for them?
3597How many thousands of men terminate their wishes in such a condition as yours?
3597Is it not her custom to let those live in quiet by whom she is not importuned?
3597Is it not reason that my conscience should be much more engaged when men simply rely upon it?
3597Is not this true?
3597Is not your house situated in a sweet and healthful air, sufficiently furnished, and more than sufficiently large?
3597Is there any local, extraordinary, indigestible thought that afflicts you?"
3597Let them well consider what they do before they, produce it to the light who hastens them?
3597Might not one render it even voluptuous, like the Commoyientes of Antony and Cleopatra?
3597O Pythagoras, why didst not thou allay this tempest?
3597To what end are these elevated points of philosophy, upon which no human being can rely?
3597To whom do they not, at last, become tedious and insupportable?
3597To whom does he prescribe that which he does not expect any one should perform?
3597Unde manus inventus Metu Deorum continuit?
3597We will have them nearer to us: is the garden, or half a day''s journey from home, far?
3597Were it not possible for us to imitate this resolution after a more decent manner?
3597What altar is spared?"
3597What care I for that?
3597What crime does this bad age shrink from?
3597What do you there want?
3597What is ten leagues: far or near?
3597What remedy?
3597What wickedness have we left undone?
3597What will he get by it?
3597What would I not rather do than read a contract?
3597What youth is restrained from evil by the fear of the gods?
3597What, then, ought prating to produce, since prattling and the first beginning to speak, stuffed the world with such a horrible load of volumes?
3597When did we write so much as since our troubles?
3597Who is he that had not rather not be read at all than after a drowsy or cursory manner?
3597Who, then, can despair of his condition, seeing the shocks and commotions wherewith Rome was tumbled and tossed, and yet withstood them all?
3597Why barbarous, because they are not French?
3597["Olus, what is it to thee what he or she does with their skin?"
3597["Shall impious soldiers have these new- ploughed grounds?"
3597["Whither dost thou run wandering?"
3597and those rules that exceed both our use and force?
3597cicatricum, et sceleris pudet, Fratrumque: quid nos dura refugimus AEtas?
3597is he unjust in not doing what it is impossible for him to do?
3597or than, as a slave to my own business, tumble over those dusty writings?
3597or, which is worse, those of another man, as so many do nowadays, to get money?
3597quid intactum nefasti Liquimus?
3597when the Romans so much, as upon the point of ruin?
3586And what if he had commanded you to fire our temples?
3586Quis hominum potest scire consilium Dei? 3586 Usque adeone Scire tuum, nihil est, nisi to scire hoc, sciat alter?"
3586--"He would never have commanded me that,"replied Blosius.--"But what if he had?"
3586--Who could have found out a more subtle invention to secure his safety, than he did to assure his destruction?
3586After which, some one asked their opinion, and would know of them, what of all the things they had seen, they found most to be admired?
3586Alloquar?
3586And why should this seem hard to believe?
3586Aut quis poterit cogitare quid velit Dominus?"
3586But to conclude: is there not a direct application of her favour, bounty, and piety manifestly discovered in this action?
3586But, to speak the truth, is not man a most miserable creature the while?
3586Can there be a more express act of justice than this?
3586Did she not also excel the painter Protogenes in his art?
3586Do they meet the smiles of parents with feigned tears?
3586Does she not seem to be an artist here?
3586Does she not sometimes direct our counsels and correct them?
3586Either tranquil life, or happy death Enslave our own contentment to the power of another?
3586How many men, especially in Turkey, go naked upon the account of devotion?
3586How much would he find his imaginary Republic short of his perfection?
3586If two at the same time should call to you for succour, to which of them would you run?
3586Is there any trophy dedicated to the conquerors which was not much more due to these who were overcome?
3586Let us tell ambition that it is she herself who gives us a taste of solitude; for what does she so much avoid as society?
3586Nec carus aeque, nec superstes Integer?
3586Quantae connscindunt hominem cupedinis acres Sollicitum curae?
3586Quidve superbia, spurcitia, ac petulantia, quantas Efficiunt clades?
3586Remember him, who being asked why he took so much pains in an art that could come to the knowledge of but few persons?
3586Shall I address thee?
3586Should one commit a thing to your silence that it were of importance to the other to know, how would you disengage yourself?
3586Should they require of you contrary offices, how could you serve them both?
3586What does she so much seek as elbowroom?
3586Who is the man that by fleeing from his country, can also flee from himself?"
3586Why therefore should we, contrary to their laws, enslave our own contentment to the power of another?
3586Will you see how they shoot short?
3586["Dost thou, then, old man, collect food for others''ears?"
3586["For what is that friendly love?
3586["If that half of my soul were snatch away from me by an untimely stroke, why should the other stay?
3586["Is Venus really so repugnant to newly- married maids?
3586["Is all that thy learning nothing, unless another knows that thou knowest?"
3586["What shame can there, or measure, in lamenting so dear a friend?"
3586["Who of men can know the counsel of God?
3586["Why do we seek climates warmed by another sun?
3586anne parentum Frustrantur falsis gaudia lachrymulis, Ubertim thalami quasi intra limina fundunt?
3586audiero nunquam tua verba loquentem?
3586can any man conceive in his mind or realise what is dearer than he is to himself?"
3586cur neque deformem adolescentem quisquam amat, neque formosum senem?"
3586or:["If a superior force has taken that part of my soul, why do I, the remaining one, linger behind?
3586patriae quis exsul Se quoque fugit?"
3586quantique perinde timores?
3586quemquamne hominem in animum instituere, aut Parare, quod sit carius, quam ipse est sibi?"
3586quid luxus desidiesque?"
3586why does no one love a deformed youth or a comely old man?"
3599Have you known how to meditate and manage your life? 3599 --Substance";"And what is substance?"
3599A stone is a body; but if a man should further urge:"And what is a body?"
3599AEsop, that great man, saw his master piss as he walked:"What then,"said he,"must we drop as we run?"
3599And how many have not escaped dying, who have had three physicians at their tails?
3599And then how easy a thing is it to satisfy the fancy?
3599And though it should present to you the image of approaching death, were it not a good office to a man of such an age, to put him in mind of his end?
3599But I had told the truth to my master,--[Was this Henri VI.?
3599But is it not that we seek more honour from the quotation, than from the truth of the matter in hand?
3599But was this man obliged to drink full bumpers by any rule of civility?
3599But what?
3599Do I conceive that they still live, to whom the respirable air, and the light itself, by which we are governed, is rendered oppressive?"
3599Do I find myself in any calm composedness?
3599Do you believe that chestnuts can hurt a Perigordin or a Lucchese, or milk and cheese the mountain people?
3599Dost thou call to mind the men of past times, who so greedily sought diseases to keep their virtue in breath and exercise?
3599How many condemnations have I seen more criminal than the crimes themselves?
3599I only judge of myself by actual sensation, not by reasoning: to what end, since I am resolved to bring nothing to it but expectation and patience?
3599If thou tellest me that it is a dangerous and mortal disease, what others are not so?
3599Is it not an error to esteem any actions less worthy, because they are necessary?
3599Is it not the common and final end of all studies?
3599Is it not the principal and most reputed knowledge of our later ages to understand the learned?
3599Is there anything in the pain suffered, that one can counterpoise to the pleasure of so sudden an amendment?
3599Our contest is verbal: I ask what nature is, what pleasure, circle, and substitution are?
3599That this is true: I am come to that pass of late, that the least motion forces pure blood out of my kidneys: what of that?
3599These boastful humours may counterfeit some content, for what will not fancy do?
3599Though they were the ecstasies of Archimedes himself, what then?
3599To what end do we dismember by divorce a building united by so close and brotherly a correspondence?
3599What could I have said to these people?
3599What have our legislators gained by culling out a hundred thousand particular cases, and by applying to these a hundred thousand laws?
3599What, shall mere doubt and inquiry strike our imagination, so as to change us?
3599What?
3599When were we ever agreed amongst ourselves:"This book has enough; there is now no more to be said about it"?
3599Whence does it come to pass that our common language, so easy for all other uses, becomes obscure and unintelligible in wills and contracts?
3599Why do they not, moreover, forswear breathing?
3599Why do we not imitate the Roman architecture?
3599Will they not seek the quadrature of the circle, even when on their wives?
3599Will you have an example?
3599Will you know how much I get by this?
3599Wrangling arrogance, wholly believing and trusting in itself Yet do we find any end of the need of interpretating?
3599Years have evidently helped me to drain certain rheums; and why not these excrements which furnish matter for gravel?
3599["Is life worth so much?
3599["Who is surprised to see a swollen goitre in the Alps?"
3599and whence are the clouds perpetually supplied with water?
3599does not this incorrigible coxcomb think that he assumes a new understanding by undertaking a new dispute?
3599have you not lived?
3599have you not lived?"
3599how is it that her horns are contracted and reopen?
3599is a day to come which may undermine the world?"
3599is it not folly?
3599is there any pleasure that tickles me?
3599what does the east wind court with its blasts?
3599whence do winds prevail on the main?
3599whence rises the monthly moon, whither wanes she?
3599why do they not live of their own?
3599why do you vainly form these puerile wishes?"
3599why not refuse light, because it is gratuitous, and costs them neither invention nor exertion?
3595Num tu, qux tenuit dives Achaemenes, Aut pinguis Phrygiae Mygdonias opes, Permutare velis crine Licymnim? 3595 Pone seram; cohibe: sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?
3595''Tis a free contract why do you not then keep to it, as you would have them do?
3595--And what did Theophrastus treat of in those he intituled, the one''The Lover'', and the other''Of Love?''
35958, v 43] What better interpretation can we make of Messalina''s behaviour?
3595A mighty inconvenience, sure, which could poison the whole life of so just, so wise, and so valiant a man; what must we other little fellows do?
3595A young man asked the philosopher Panetius if it were becoming a wise man to be in love?
3595And besides, what fruit is there of this painful solicitude?
3595And his fifty so lascivious epistles?
3595And that of Aristo:''Of Amorous Exercises''What those of Cleanthes: one,''Of Love'', the other,''Of the Art of Loving''?
3595And, moreover, who escapes being talked of at the same rate, from the least even to the greatest?
3595And, pray, why not?
3595Are we not brutes to call that work brutish which begets us?
3595As to the second point; should we not be less cuckolds, if we less feared to be so?
3595But is it not great impudence to offer our imperfections and imbecilities, where we desire to please and leave a good opinion and esteem of ourselves?
3595Dent licet assidue, nil tamen inde perit;"["Who says that one light should not be lighted from another light?
3595Do I not represent myself to the life?
3595Do I not talk at the same rate throughout?
3595Does it not seem as if she was going to become chaste by her husband''s negligence?
3595Dost thou think thou art too much at ease unless half thy ease is uneasy?
3595Effects?
3595How miserably have they of my time arrived at that knowledge who have been so unhappy as to have found it out?
3595How?
3595If we are only to trust to their will, what a case are we in, then?
3595Is it not here as in matter of books, that sell better and become more public for being suppressed?
3595Is it to say, the less we expend in words, we may pay so much the more in thinking?
3595Is it, perhaps, as Plato says, that they have formerly been debauched young fellows?
3595Is there any deformity in doing amiss, that can excuse us from confessing ourselves?
3595Let childhood look forward and age backward; was not this the signification of Janus''double face?
3595Now, the duty of chastity is of a vast extent; is it the will that we would have them restrain?
3595Of what Aristippus in his''Of Former Delights''?
3595Shall I speak it, without the danger of having my throat cut?
3595The amorous dialogues of Sphaereus?
3595To what end should we go insinuate our misery amid their gay and sprightly humour?
3595Were it not an excellent piece of thrift in him who could dine on the steam of the roast?
3595What commodity will not serve their turn, in so knowing an age?
3595What do the so long and lively descriptions in Plato of the loves of his time pretend to?
3595What he thinks to be so just in recommendation of military valour, why may it not be the same in recommendation of any other good quality?
3595What mischief do not those pictures of prodigious dimension do that the boys make upon the staircases and galleries of the royal houses?
3595What monstrous animal is this, that is a horror to himself, to whom his delights are grievous, and who weds himself to misfortune?
3595What was the meaning of that ridiculous piece of the chaussuye of our forefathers, and that is still worn by our Swiss?
3595What?
3595Why should they not give ear to our offers and requests, so long as they are kept within the bounds of modesty?
3595Why, goddess, has your confidence in me ceased?"
3595Would you know what impression your service and merit have made in her heart?
3595["Dost thou seek causes from above?
3595["Put on a lock; shut them up under a guard; but who shall guard the guard?
3595["What prevents us from speaking truth with a smile?"
3595["Why does no man confess his vices?
3595["Wouldst thou not exchange all that the wealthy Arhaemenes had, or the Mygdonian riches of fertile Phrygia, for one ringlet of Licymnia''s hair?
3595and the book called''The Lover'', of Demetrius Phalereus?
3595and the fable of Jupiter and Juno, of Chrysippus, impudent beyond all toleration?
3595and why does not some woman take a fancy to possess over her companions the glory of this chaste love?
3595do you not see that I only sleep for Maecenas?"
3595fiducia cessit Quo tibi, diva, mei?"
3595for to what friend dare you intrust your griefs, who, if he does not laugh at them, will not make use of the occasion to get a share of the quarry?
3595or that she sought another husband who might sharpen her appetite by his jealousy, and who by watching should incite her?
3595so that you presently assume the interest, coldness, and authority of a husband?
3595wherefore should we fancy them to have other thoughts within, and to be worse than they seem?
3595why not?
46759I saw it,is the reply of a witness whose story is contested;"Do you take me for a fellow suffering from hallucination?"
46759Rome, Rome?
46759What did I see at Rome?
46759--"Librarian of Sainte- Geneviève?"
46759About God?
46759About what?
46759About whom?
46759And who would not agree with him?
46759Are we free to be hot or cold, to be hungry or thirsty?
46759Are we independent of the ideas that come to us, the images that are formed in our mind, that is to say, our brain?
46759At least, then, we are free to receive them or reject them, to show them the door or smilingly invite them in?
46759Beyond-- Beyond what?
46759But all this will at least come back?
46759But do the women, too, find lovers to their taste there?
46759But do you not believe that there is a beginning to everything, even to tradition?
46759But how be happy?
46759But is it really true that this idea is not contained in Leopardi''s dialogue?
46759But suppose they are really inhabited, as M. Flammarion hopes, and as is moreover fairly probable?
46759But the wicked god of the Christians, who is not fond of maidens?
46759But to see?
46759But what becomes of days when they have fallen, sere and yellow?
46759But what does the word_ life_ mean?
46759Can this be the reason why her narrow life as an old maid found late in life so many happy, if perverse, days?
46759Dialogue.--GOD: Who has made you man?
46759Do you know how many asserted categorically that the window did not exist?
46759Do you wish to see him in his rôle of a serious philosopher?
46759Does not Napoleon III gayly setting out for the frontier provide the spectacle par excellence of the player who overrates himself?
46759Does this mean here the fairy, or the divine one?
46759From the purely practical point of view, if the end to be attained were not embellished by illusion, would we ever set about the task?
46759How do that, without knowing one another?
46759Is it harmonious?
46759Is it not pleasant to know that the Seine means"the gushing one?"
46759Is it to the Gauls or the Romans that we owe the names Dive, Divette, Divonne?
46759Is not the poet who recites his verses before an audience really the nightingale singing his song?
46759Is the source of Leopardi''s pessimism to be sought among these divers causes?
46759It is impossible for us to make our heart stop beating; but is it really possible to stop our finger from moving, and if it is, for how long?
46759MAN: Who has made you God?
46759Nevertheless, what is the beyond?
46759Otherwise, what is the use of living?
46759Scholars?
46759Suppose we bravely accept the death of our dreams at the same time as the death of our bodies?
46759The following dialogue takes place:"Are n''t you Ancillon?"
46759Then what matters that which we call the fall of the days or the fall of the leaves?
46759This verse, which would be greatly admired and celebrated if it had been found in André Chenier,--does it truly come from the pen of Helvétius?
46759Through virtue?
46759To accept the combat is in itself, is it not, to believe that one is the stronger?
46759To what remote, unknown, chimerical worlds are they carried off forever?
46759Traditions?
46759Very well, what is virtue?
46759We can cease eating: but for how long?
46759We can even stop breathing; for how long?
46759Well, suppose we remain upon earth, after all?
46759What are its boundaries?
46759What difference does it make to me whether the fellow who''ll split my head be an_ apache_ or a lunatic?
46759What does responsibility mean?
46759What faith may I have in your testimony?
46759What is a sensation?
46759What is a source?
46759What is life?
46759What is there astonishing about that?
46759What is to happen?
46759What more simple than that?
46759What next?
46759What will be proposed to me next?
46759What, indeed, is the will?
46759Where do you place it?
46759Where does it begin?
46759Where is this beyond?
46759Whither do they go?
46759Whither go the sere and yellow leaves?
46759Who can tell?
46759Who does not think with horror, after this experiment, of all those criminal trials where a verdict is rendered on the strength of witnesses?
46759Who knows whether pleasure taken in wise moderation is not virtue itself?
46759Why insist?
46759Why?
46759Will you buy some almanacs, sir?
46759With Napoleon?
46759Would n''t you be glad to have the coming year the same as any one of the recent years?
46759Would such and such a woman have evoked the passion which is today her happiness if her gown, on that evening, had been rose and not mauve?
46759Would you consult Saint Anthony in regard to some lost object?
46759You have doubts?
46759You speak of a woman,--doubtless of her whom you love?
46759_ P._--A life left to accident, of which nothing would be known in advance,--a life such as the coming year brings?
46759_ P._--As happy as the one before that?
46759_ P._--As happy as the one just past?
46759_ P._--As happy as which other one, then?
46759_ P._--Can''t you recall some year that seemed happy to you?
46759_ P._--Even if this life were to be exactly the same that you lived before,--no more no less,--with the same pleasures and the same sorrows?
46759_ P._--How long have you been selling almanacs?
46759_ P._--Then what sort of life would you wish?
46759_ P._--Which of those twenty years would you prefer the new year to resemble?
46759_ P._--Yet life is a good thing, is n''t it?
46759_ P_.--You would be willing to live these twenty years all over again, and even all the years since you were born?
46759_ Passer- by._ Do you think it will be a happy one,--this coming year?
46759_ The Passer- by_.--Almanacs for the new year?
46759_ V._--I?
46759de Montespan?
46759testimony?
3587And what after that is done?
3587And what then?
3587For God sake, sir,replied Cyneas,"tell me what hinders that you may not, if you please, be now in the condition you speak of?
3587I d cinerem et manes credis curare sepultos?
3587Nonne videmus, Nil aliud sibi naturam latrare, nisi ut, quoi Corpore sejunctus dolor absit, mente fruatur, Jucundo sensu, cura semotu''metuque?
3587Quoties non modo ductores nostri, sed universi etiam exercitus, ad non dubiam mortem concurrerunt?
3587Shall I be sure to be there by to- morrow night?
3587--to this purpose, if we dread that which cowardice itself has chosen for its refuge?
3587And this Peter or William, what is it but a sound, when all is done?
3587And, of his ancestors what fruition or taste of sport did he reserve to himself, who never went hawking without seven thousand falconers?
3587But it may, peradventure, be objected against me: Your rule is true enough as to what concerns death; but what will you say of indigence?
3587But withal, what better opportunity can he expect than that he has lost?
3587Can she, without winking, stand the lightning of swords?
3587Can we think that the singing boys of the choir take any great delight in music?
3587Do I not see that the wicked and the good king, he that is hated and he that is beloved, have the one as much reverence paid him as the other?
3587Do fevers, gout, and apoplexies spare him any more than one of us?
3587ETEXT EDITOR''S BOOKMARKS:"Art thou not ashamed,"said he to him,"to sing so well?"
3587For what testimony of affection and goodwill can I extract from him that owes me, whether he will or no, all that he is able to do?
3587For what, said I, if I should be surprised by such or such an accident?
3587Has fortune no hand in the affair?
3587He only fights it with words, and in the meantime, if the shootings and dolours he felt did not move him, why did he interrupt his discourse?
3587He who has neither the courage to die nor the heart to live, who will neither resist nor fly, what can we do with him?
3587How many are there, in every family, of the same name and surname?
3587How many examples of the contempt of pain have we in that sex?
3587How many gentlemen have we in France who by their own account are of royal extraction?
3587How suddenly do greasy chamois and linen doublets become the fashion in our armies, whilst all neatness and richness of habit fall into contempt?
3587If he be angry, can his being a prince keep him from looking red and looking pale, and grinding his teeth like a madman?
3587If things surrender themselves to our mercy, why do we not convert and accommodate them to our advantage?
3587Is she beautiful, capable, and happily provided of all her faculties?
3587Is she rich of what is her own, or of what she has borrowed?
3587Is she settled, even and content?
3587Shall we force the general law of nature, which in every living creature under heaven is seen to tremble under pain?
3587Shall we persuade our skins that the jerks of a whip agreeably tickle us, or our taste that a potion of aloes is vin de Graves?
3587This story that they make such a clutter withal, what has it to do, I fain would know, with the contempt of pain?
3587To one who being present exhorted him to recommend himself to God:"Why, who goes thither?"
3587To what end serves the knowledge of things if it renders us more unmanly?
3587Was I going a journey?
3587Was it not a pleasant passage of a friend of mine?
3587Were it not so, who had ever given reputation to virtue; valour, force, magnanimity, and resolution?
3587What appetite would not be baffled to see three hundred women at its mercy, as the grand signor has in his seraglio?
3587What can they not do, what do they fear to do, for never so little hope of an addition to their beauty?
3587What could a pitiful schoolmaster have done worse, whose trade it was thereby to get his living?
3587What privilege has this to continue particularly in my house?
3587What soul has he?
3587What would you say of him that would not vouchsafe to respite his reading in a book whilst he was under incision?
3587When he is astounded with the apprehension of death, can the gentlemen of his bedchamber comfort and assure him?
3587When jealousy or any other caprice swims in his brain, can our compliments and ceremonies restore him to his good- humour?
3587When old age hangs heavy upon his shoulders, can the yeomen of his guard ease him of the burden?
3587Which of them ever changed countenance?
3587Which of them not only stood or fell indecorously?
3587Who ever so greedily hunted after security and repose as Alexander and Caesar did after disturbance and difficulties?
3587Who has not heard at Paris of her that caused her face to be flayed only for the fresher complexion of a new skin?
3587Who hinders my groom from calling himself Pompey the Great?
3587Why did he fancy he did so great a thing in forbearing to confess it an evil?
3587Why do you not now at this instant settle yourself in the state you seem to aim at, and spare all the labour and hazard you interpose?"
3587Why, in like manner, do we not value a man for what is properly his own?
3587You are to judge him by himself and not by what he wears; and, as one of the ancients very pleasantly said:"Do you know why you repute him tall?
3587["Do you believe the dead regard such things?"
3587a gladiator of Caesar''s endured, laughing all the while, his wounds to be searched, lanced, and laid open:["What ordinary gladiator ever groaned?
3587and how many more in several families, ages, and countries?
3587and if it put us into a worse condition than Pyrrho''s hog?
3587art thou a man at arms, art thou an archer, art thou a pikeman?"
3587does he not forget his palaces and girandeurs?
3587if we thereby lose the tranquillity and repose we should enjoy without it?
3587is she indifferent whether her life expire by the mouth or through the throat?
3587what of all that, if he be a fool?
3587what remains for him to covet or desire?
3587where were their parts to be played if there were no pain to be defied?
3587why, in giving your estimate of a man, do you prize him wrapped and muffled up in clothes?