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Page 115 - Greeks are there whose fame, like these men's, would appear but the just counterpoise of their deeds. Again, the closing scene of these men appears to me to supply an illustration of human worth, whether as affording us the first information respecting it, or its final confirmation. For even in the case of men who have been in other respects of an inferior character, it is but fair for them to hold forth as a screen their military courage in their country's behalf; for, having wiped out their evil...
Page 120 - The bodies of dying men lay one upon another, and half-dead creatures reeled about the streets and gathered round all the fountains in their longing for water. The sacred places also in which they had quartered themselves were full of corpses of persons that had died there, just as they were; for...
Page 206 - For reckless daring was regarded as courage that was true to its friend ; prudent delay as specious cowardice ; moderation as a cloak for unmanliness ; being intelligent in everything as being useful for nothing.
Page 181 - ... now pay them back in their turn, without yielding to present weakness or forgetting the peril that once hung over you. Punish them as they deserve, and teach your other allies by a striking example that the penalty of rebellion is death. Let them once understand this and you will not have so often to neglect your enemies while you are fighting with your own confederates.
Page 120 - ... both sacred and profane, alike. And all the laws were violated which they before observed respecting burials ; and they buried them as each one could. And many, from want of proper means, in consequence of so many of their friends having already died, had recourse to shameless modes of sepulture ; for on the piles prepared for others, some, anticipating those who had raised them, would •lay their own dead relative and set fire to them ; and others, while the body of a stranger was burning,...
Page 114 - For we study taste with economy, and philosophy without effeminacy; and employ wealth rather for opportunity of action than for boastfulness of talking; while poverty is nothing disgraceful for a man to confess, but not to escape it by exertion is more disgraceful. Again, the same men can attend at the same time to domestic as well as to public affairs; and others, who are engaged with business, can still form a sufficient judgment on political questions. For we are the only people that consider...
Page 120 - ... dead. So they resolved to take their enjoyment quickly, and with a sole view to gratification ; regarding their lives and their riches alike as things of a day. As for taking trouble about what was thought honourable, no one was forward to...
Page 116 - ... what I had to say befitting the occasion; and, .in deed, those who are here interred, have already received part of their honors; while, for the remaining part, the state will bring up their sons at the public expense, from this time to their manhood; thus offering both to these and to their posterity a beneficial reward for such contests; for where the greatest prizes for virtue are given, there also the most virtuous men are found among the citizens. And now, having finished your lamentations...
Page 114 - ... willing to face danger, we have the advantage of not suffering beforehand from coming troubles, and of proving ourselves, when we are involved in them, no less bold than those who are always toiling; so that our country is worthy of admiration in these respects, and in others besides. For we study taste with economy, and philosophy without effeminacy; and employ wealth rather for opportunity of action than for...
Page 128 - ... himself led them ; for he did not say anything to humor them, for the acquisition of power by improper means, but was able on the strength of his character to contradict them even at the risk of their displeasure. Whenever, for instance, he perceived them...