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Often appears with: justice as a virtue · temperance and self-mastery · pleasure, pain, and the good life · vision fulfilled with security · unadorned beauty · temples, shrines, and sacred places · sacred mosque · religious persecution and toleration · public burdens · private generosity · popular participation · offering withheld from reaching its place
Usually: reflection (4) · detachment (3) · exhortation (3) · wonder (2) · argument (1) · grief and loss (1) · reunion (1) · the test or trial (1) · reverence (1)
“I think that one who has received a kindness ought to remember it all his life; but that the doer of the kindness should forget it once for all; if the former is to behave like a good man, the latter like one free from all meanness.” Demosthenes, The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 · precept
He emphasizes remaining calm and equitable in social life, handling grief and loss with discipline, treating bodily impressions as separate from judgments, and living as an imitation of Antoninus’s constancy and piety.
the senses, and of the pulling of the strings which move the appetites, and of the discursive movements of the thoughts, and of the service to the flesh (ii. 12). 29. It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way. 30. Take care that thou art not made into a Caesar, that thou art not dyed with this dye; for such things happen. Keep thyself then simple, good, pure, s…
Mill says institutions require active popular participation and self-restraint; if people resist or cannot sustain a polity’s demands, even a promising form of government becomes unsuitable.
prove that what has been found good for others would not have been good also for them, and will not be so still when they think fit to adopt it. On the other hand, it is also to be borne in mind that political machinery does not act of itself. As it is first made, so it has to be worked, by men, and even by ordinary men. It needs, not their simple acquiescence, but their active participation; and must be adjusted to…
Demosthenes juxtaposes his and Aeschines’ lives, says he undertook public burdens and aided private benefactions quietly, and argues his moderation in speaking of himself.
mention lightly all the infamy and disgrace which I could prove to be connected with him, but only so much as it is not discreditable to myself to speak of. {265} And now review the history of your life and of mine, side by side--good temperedly, Aeschines, not unkindly: and then ask these gentlemen which fortune, of the two, each of them would choose. You taught letters; I attended school. You conducted initiations…
The verses explain why believers were kept from forcing entry into the Sacred Mosque, describe Allah’s settling of believers against the zeal of unbelievers, and promise a secure entry with shaved heads and trimmed hair.
048.028 Y: It is He Who has sent His Messenger with Guidance and the Religion of Truth, to proclaim it over all religion: and enough is Allah for a Witness. P: He it is Who hath sent His messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, that He may cause it to prevail over all religion. And Allah sufficeth as a Witness. S: He it is Who sent His Messenger with the guidance and the true religion that He may make…
Alone for a moment, Minna prays and reflects on joy after finding Tellheim, then returns to self-command while Franziska urges her to dress quickly.
Minna, *and afterwards* Franziska MIN. I have found him again!--Am I alone?--I will not be alone to no purpose.-- (Clasping her hands.) Yet I am not alone! (Looking upwards.) One single grateful thought towards heaven, is the most perfect prayer! I have found him! I have found him! (With outstretched arms.) I am joyful and happy! What can please the Creator more than a joyful creature! (Franzis…