Hoc bene qui callet, (si quis tamen hoc bene callet,) Scribe vel invito sapientem hunc Socrate solum.

A Discourse concerning Socrates's Dæmon.

Warriors and kings, and ministers of kings, have power; but poets and philosophers have influence, for their ideas go coursing round the world until they have changed governments and institutions for better or for worse,like those of Paul, of Socrates, of Augustine, of Dante, of Shakspeare, of Bacon, yea, of Rousseau.

Socrates revolutionized Greek philosophy, but had not power enough to save his life from unjust accusations.

" Socrates advises persons of means to imitate the swans, which, realizing the benefit of an approaching death, sing while in their death agony.

Do you think, said Socrates, that if an ass happened to kick me, I should resent it?

If a Greek received a box on the ear, he could get satisfaction by the aid of the law; as is evident from Plato's Gorgias, where Socrates' opinion may be found.

Plato, Plotinus, Porphyrius, Jamblichus, Proclus, insisting in the steps of Trismegistus, Pythagoras and Socrates, make no doubt of it: nor Stoics, but that there are such spirits, though much erring from the truth.

40, Nicephorus, Eusebius, Socrates, Sozomenus, Jacobus Boissardus in his tract de spirituum apparitionibus, Petrus Loyerus l. de spectris, Wierus l. 1. have infinite variety of such examples of apparitions of spirits, for him to read that farther doubts, to his ample satisfaction.

Never was any man extraordinary famous in any art, action, or great commander, that had not familiarem daemonem to inform him, as Numa, Socrates, and many such, as Cardan illustrates, cap.

In what humour constant Socrates did thus, I know not, or how he might be affected, but this would be pernicious to another man; what intricate business might so really possess him, I cannot easily guess; but this is otiosum otium, it is far otherwise with these men, according to Seneca, Omnia nobis mala solitudo persuadet; this solitude undoeth us, pugnat cum vita sociali; 'tis a destructive solitariness.

The Stoics are altogether of opinion (as Lipsius and [1580]Picolomineus record), that a wise man should be [Greek: apathaes], without all manner of passions and perturbations whatsoever, as Seneca reports of Cato, the Greeks of Socrates, and Io.

Phaedon, Rivales, Charmides et reliqui Platonis Dialogi, satis superque testatum faciunt: quod vero Alcibiades de eodem Socrate loquatur, lubens conticesco, sed et abhorreo; tantum incitamentum praebet libidini.

Quid si nunc ostendam eos qui magna vi argenti domus inutiles aedificant, inquit Socrates. 1870.

Quam multis non egeo, quam multa non desidero, ut Socrates in pompa, ille in nundinis. 3762.

Socrates, lib. 7. cap.

That writ de professo against Christians, et palestinum deum (ut Socrates lib.

It was well that Socrates remained in the common criminal prison in Athens and drank the hemlock poison; but nine times out of ten it would have been better to run away, as he had an opportunity to do.

How many have followed the example of Socrates, remaining in prison and accepting the hemlock poison for the sake of truth?

Did you ever try reading to them the defense which old Socrates makes, which Plato wrote down for us?

I do not know whether Socrates ever said it, but it was worthy of him.

Let them sit with Socrates in his prison there on the hillside and listen to his discussion, until, as he says, he hears the voice of the law ringing in his ears and he cannot hear anything else, and stays on to die.

The same intention betrayed itself in every sort of work that issued at that time from the hermitage of Delices, the poem on Le Tremblement de Terre de Lisbonne, the drama of Socrate, the satire of the Pauvre Diable, the sad story of Candide, led the way to a series of publications every day more and more violent against the Christian faith.

soit égale à l'étoile éternelle: Le baudet qui, rentrant le soir, surchargé, las, Mourant, sentant saigner ses pauvres sabots plats, Fait quelques pas de plus, s'écarte et se dérange Pour ne pas écraser un crapaud dans la fange, Cet âne abject, souillé, meurtri sous le bâton, Est plus saint que Socrate et plus grand que Platon.

Of, this last characteristic Cato records in his book Origines: 'In the mountains of Socrate and Fiscellus there are wild goats which leap from rock to rock a distance of more than sixty feet.'