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He raises sedition in the city, who by irrational actions withdraws his own soul from that one and common soul of all rational creatures. XXV. There is, who without so much as a coat; and there is, who without so much as a book, doth put philosophy in practice. I am half naked, neither have I bread to eat, and yet I depart not from reason, saith one.
Because some men harshly demand repayment of debts, we forbid it, not in order that it may never be done, but that it may be done sparingly. XXV. Aristippus once, when enjoying a perfume, said: "Bad luck to those effeminate persons who have brought so nice a thing into disrepute."
See Foundations, ch. xvii. section 12, note. Life, ch. xxiii. section 15. Life, ch. xxvi. section 5. Section 4. Life, ch. xxv. section 19. Life, ch. xxv. section 22. See Life, ch. xxvii. section 5. Relation VIII. Addressed to F. Rodrigo Alvarez.
But the service of God is the basis of the best service of man, for the altar stands between the lamp and the table. 'His servants shall serve Him' with priestly ministrations, 'and shall see His face, and His name shall be in their foreheads. 'Thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold.... EXODUS xxv. 31.
XXV. There is a legend that the news of the battle on the river Sagra in Italy against the natives was carried the same day into Peloponnesus, and that of the battle of Mykale against the Medes was so carried to Plataea. The victory of the Romans over the Latins under the exiled Tarquins was reported at Rome a little after it took place, by two men, tall and fair, who came from the army.
In Leviticus xxv. 47, the case of the Israelite, who became the servant of the stranger, the words are, "If he SELL HIMSELF unto the stranger." The same word, and the same form of the word, which, in the 47th verse, is rendered sell himself, is in the 39th verse of the same chapter, rendered be sold; in Deut. xxviii. 68, the same word is rendered "be sold."
The matter which, for instance, was four years ago such a horse, is now but air, or dung. What was then either hay, or oats, is become that same horse, so fiery and vigorous at least, he is accounted the same horse, notwithstanding this insensible change of his substance. SECT. XXV. Of Sleep.
ADVENTURE XXV. How The Lords All Journeyed To The Huns. Now let us leave the tale of how they lived at Etzel's court. More high-mettled warriors never rode in such lordly wise to the land of any king; they had whatever they listed, both of weapons and of weeds. The ruler of the Rhineland clad his men, a thousand and sixty knights, as I have heard, and nine thousand footmen, for the courtly feast.
That avenging the death of the servant, was neither imprisonment, nor stripes, nor a fine but that it was taking the master's life we infer, 1. From the use of the word nakam. See Gen. iv. 24; Josh. x. 13; Judg. xv. 7; xvi. 28; 1 Sam. xiv. 24; xviii. 25; xxv. 31; 2 Sam. iv. 8; Judg. v. 2; 1 Sam. xxv. 26-33. 2.
As, then, you know now what is good in these things, it is easily to be understood what are the contrary qualities. XXV. But if we were able always to preserve what is best, we should not have much need of deliberation, since that is usually very evident.
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