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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, often simply called Bartlett's, is an American reference work that is the longest-lived and most widely distributed collection of quotations. The book was first issued in 1855 and is currently in its seventeenth edition, published in 2003.
The book arranges its entries by author, rather than by subject, as many other quotation collections, and enters the authors chronologically by date of birth rather than alphabetically. Within years, authors are arranged alphabetically and quotations are arranged chronologically within each author's entry, followed by "attributed" remarks whose source in the author's writings has not been confirmed. The book contains a thorough keyword index and details the source of each quotation.
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History
John Bartlett, who ran the University Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was frequently asked for information on quotations and he began a commonplace book of them for reference. In 1855, he privately printed his compilation as A Collection of Familiar Quotations. This first edition contained 258 pages of quotations by 169 authors, chiefly the Bible, William Shakespeare, and the great English poets. Bartlett wrote in the fourth edition that "it is not easy to determine in all cases the degree of familiarity that may belong to phrases and sentences which present themselves for admission; for what is familiar to one class of readers may be quite new to another."
The book was a great success, and Bartlett issued three more editions before joining the Boston publishing firm of Little, Brown, and Company. Bartlett rose to be the senior partner of the firm and supervised nine editions of the work before his death in 1905, the work selling over 300,000 copies. The seventh edition had appeared in 1875, the eighth edition in 1882, and the ninth in 1891. The tenth edition, however, would not appear for more than twenty years.
Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole, the tenth edition (1914) was much like its predecessors. The book began with quotations originally in English, arranging them chronologically by author (Geoffrey Chaucer was the first entry, Mary Frances Butts the last). These quotes were chiefly from literary sources. A "miscellaneous" section follows of quotations in English from politicians and scientists (such as "fifty-four forty or fight!"). A section of "translations" follows, consisting mainly of lines from the ancient Greeks and Romans. The last section was devoted to the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. Quotations were arranged in a single column.
The eleventh edition (1937), edited by Christopher Morley (1890–1957) and Louella D. Everett, expanded the page size and created a two-column format, making it the first edition that is recognizable to users of the modern work. A twelfth edition (1948) was also edited by Morley and Everett.
The thirteenth edition (1955) was billed by the publisher as the "Centennial Edition." While the work was credited to the editors of Little, Brown, the preface gives special thanks to Morley and Everett as well as Emily Morison Beck (1915–2004). The volume continued to add more recent material, the two youngest authors being cartoonist Bill Mauldin and Queen Elizabeth II. Beck also edited the fourteenth edition (1968) and the fifteenth (1980). Aram Bakshian said Beck's work on the fifteenth edition was the start of the work's downfall: "Donning the intellectual bell-bottoms and platform shoes of its era, Bartlett's began sprouting third-rate Third World, youth-culture, and feminist quotes," part of "a middle-aged obsession with staying trendy."
Following Beck's retirement, Little, Brown entrusted the editorship to Justin Kaplan, whose life of Mark Twain Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain had won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967. Kaplan brought out the sixteenth edition in 1993 to a firestorm of controversy, thanks to his public comments that "I'm not going to disguise the fact that I despise Ronald Reagan" and had deliberately shortchanged him. Reagan's entry contained only three quotations, all intended to make Mr. Reagan look ridiculous, according to critics.
Kaplan also failed to include the most famous Reagan line ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"). Democratic presidents fared much better under Kaplan than Republicans, Franklin D. Roosevelt having 35 entries and John F. Kennedy having 28. Jonathan Siegel, who edited the Macmillian Book of Political Quotations, said Kaplan was "an insult to the memory of John Bartlett and the ideologically inclusive spirit of the first fifteen editions."
Kaplan was also criticized for including material that some considered neither "familiar" nor quotable, including pop culture quotes that some thought were not worthy of inclusion. The same criticisms would be leveled against the seventeenth edition (2003), which included entries for the first time from J.K. Rowling, Jerry Seinfeld, and Larry David. The seventeenth edition did include more Reagan material, and Kaplan told USA Today after its publication "I admit I was carried away by prejudice. Mischievously I did him dirty."
List of authors from the 10th edition
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
Page
Adams, Charles Follbn .... 818
Adams, Charles Francis .... 648
Adams, John 429
John, mie 529, 530
Adams, John Quincy , . , , 312, 458
Adams, Sarah Flower 630
ADDISON, Joseph 297
Ady, Thomas 870
.(ESCHtNES 1002
ASschylus 881
Aqrkxila, note 872
AiDit, Charles H 777
Akenside, Mark 391
Alanus de Jnsulis, note .... 5
ALDEN, Henry M 803
Alexander, Cecil F 726
Alger, W. R., note 644
Aldrich, James 694
Aldrich, Thomas B 798 ^
Ali ben Taleb 953 I
Allen, Elizabeth A 783 ,
Allfn, William 865
Allinoham, William 770
Alphonso the Wise 964
Amelia, Princess 864
Ame-*, Fisher, note 283
Amikl, Henri F 994
Archilochus, note 216
Ariosto, note 552
Aristides, note 438 |
Aristophanes, note 917
Aristotle, note 267, 1045
Arkwright, Pbleg 818
Armstrong, John 860
Arnim and Brentano, note . . . 639
Arnold, George 786
Arnold, Sir Edwin 782
Arnold, Matthew 752
Arnold, Samuel J., note .... 388
Arrianus, note 890
ATHBNiBUS 952
AU.ST1N, ALFRED . 797
Avonmorb, Lord, wat 531
Bacon, Francis 164
Bacon, Lady Anne, noM .... 7
Fare
BAILEY, Philip Jambs 721
Philip Jambs, note. . . . 714
Baillie, Joanna 862
Balfour, Arthur J 828
Bancroft, George, note . . 531, 598
Bangs, John K 845
Barbauld, Mrs 433
Bare RE, BERTRAND 990, 1050
B.1RHAM. R. H 864
Barker, Theodore L 869
Barlow, George 828
Barnfield, Richard 175
Barr, M mthias 856
Barrett, Eaton, S 864
Barrington, George 445
Barrow, Isaac, note 299
Barry, Michael J 716
Bahuford, Henry H 855
Basse. William, note 179
Baxter, Richard 858
Bayard, Chevalier, note .... 21
Bayle, Peter, note 621
Bayly, T. Haynes 588
BEATTIE, James 428
Beaumont and Fletcher ... 197
note 638
Beaumont, Francis 190
Beaumont, John, note 478
BEE, Bernard E 1062
BEERS, Ethel L 706
Bell, Robert, note 330
Bellamy, G. W 868
Bellinqhausen, Von MOnch . . 992
Benjamin, Park 660
Bentham, Jeremy 1048
Bentley, Richard 284
BENTON, Thomas H 1050
BERKELEY, BISHOP 312
Berners, Juliana, note 182
BFJtRY, DOROTHY, note 484
BERTAUT, JEAN, IWte 100
Bertin, Mademoiselle, note . . 1003
Bettblhbim, a. S., note 170
BICKBRSTAFF, ISAAC 427
Blacker, Colonel 598
Blackmorb, Richard, note . . . 871
X
INDEX OF AITPHORS.
Page
Buickstonb, Sib William . . . 392
Blaib, Robbbt 354
Blamirb. Susanna 861
Blanchard. Laman, .... 611, 865
Bland, Robert, note 192
Bobart, Jacob, note 874
Bodinus, note 418
Bodley, Sir Thomas 368
Boethius, nou 648
Boileau 985
Boker, George H 756
Bolingbroke 304
Boner, John H 823
Booth, barton 306
Borbonius, note 321
Bourdillon, Francis W 833
Bracton 1049
Brainard, John O. C 578
Brainard, Mary G 808
Bramston. James 352
Breen, H. H.. note 409
Brebeton, Jane 312
Breton, Nicholas, note 33
Bridges, Robert 822
Bright, John 700
Bromley. Isaac H 784
Bronte, Emily 725
Brooke, Lord 35
Brooks, Phillips 791 |
Brough, Robert B 768 |
Brougham, Lord 527 :
Lord, note 426
Brown, John 380
Brown, Thomas E 777
Brown, Tom 286
Browne, Charles F 787
Browne, Sir Thomas 217
Browne, William 201
Brownell. Henry H 748
Browning, Elizabeth b 657
Elizabeth B., note . . 736
Browning, Robert 703
Robert, nou . . 691, 768
BRYAN, William J 843
Bryant, William Cullen . . . 572
Brydges, Samuel E 862
Buchanan, Robert W 816
Buci^, Richard M 804
Buffon, nou 186
Bulfxnch. Samuel G., nou . . . 488
Bunn, Alfred 561
Bunner, Henry C 834
BUNSEN, Carl Josias, nou . . . 956
BUNTAN, John 265
Burchard, Samuel D 866
Burke, Edmund 407
Burkand, Francis C 809
Burnet, Gilbert, nou 629
Page
Burns, Robert 446
Burton, Robert 185
Robert, note 903
Bussy de Rabutin, nou .... 286
Butler, Samuel 209
Samuel, nMe 361
Butler, William A 763
Butts, Mary F 857
Byrd, William, note 22
Byrom, John 351
Byron, Lord 639
Calhoun, John C 529
Callimachus 496
Calverley, Charles S 778
Campbell, Lord, note . . . 418, 528
Campbell, Thomas 512
Camden, William 870
Cambronnb 1002
Canning, George 464
Carew', Thomas 200
Carey, Henry 285
Carlbton, Will 825
Carlyle, Thomas 580
Carman, Bliss 844
Carney, Julia, A. F 760
Carpenter, Joseph E 715
Carroll, Lewis 781
Carruthbrs, Robert, nou . . . 528
Cary, Alice 748
Cary, Phiebb 758
Catinat, Marshal, noU .... 926
Catullus, note 306
Cawein, Madison J 849
Cbntlivbb, Susannah 859
Cervantes 970
note 894
Chamberlain, Joseph 799
Channing, William E 725
Chapman, George 35
Charles I., nou 398
Charron, note 317
Chase, Salmon P 652
Chaucer, Geoffrey 1
Cherry, Andrew 453
Chesterfield, Earl of 352
Child, Lydia Maria 610
Chivers, Thomas H 635
Choate, Rufus 598
Chorley, Henry F 652
Christy, David 1046
Church, Benjamin, nou .... 513
Churchill. Charles 412
Cibber, Collet 295
Colley, nou 294
Cicero 891
nou 890
Clarendon, Edward Hyde . . . 255
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
XI
Paqb
Clabkk, John, note 668
Clarkb, MacdonaxiD 691
Clat, Hbnrt, nots 605
Clemens, Samuel L 795
Cleveland, Grover 804
Grover, note .... 624
Clough, Arthur H. 726
Arthur H.. note .... 676
Cochrane, Alfred 849
CODRINOTON, Christopher, note . 295
Coke, Sir Edward 24
Coleridge, Hartley 686
Coleridge, Mary £ 844
CoLBRiDGE, S. Taylor 498
8. Taylor, note . . . 481
COLESWOBTHY, DaNIBL C 696
Collins, Mortimer 765
Collins, William 389
CoLMAN, George 454
George, note 934
Colton, C. C 863
Congreve, William 294
William, note .... 675
Constable, Henry, note .... 484
Constant. Henry B 992
Cook, Eliza 724
CooLiDGE, Susan 824
Cooper, J. Fenimobb, note . . . 586
CoRNUEL, Madame, note .... 926
Cotton, Nathaniel 362
Cowley, Abraham 260
CowpER, William 413
Cradbe, George 443
Craik, D. M. M 765
Ckanch, Christopher P 715
Cranfield, note 210
Crashaw. Richard 258
Crapo, W. W 1051
Crawford, Anne 861
Cristtne, note 12
Crockett, David 1044
Crockett, Ingram 837
Croker, John W., note 284
Crosby, Frances J. V 760
Cross, Marian £ 729
Cunningham, Allan 637
Curran, John P 1047
Curtis, George W 768
CuBTius, Quintus, note 25
D’Abranteb, Due 992
D'Abrantbs, Madame, note . . . 904
Dalrymple, Sir John, note . . , 550
Dance, Charles 865
Daniel, Samuel 39
Dante 966
Danton, note 28, 1000
Darmestbter, AGNES M. F. R. . 837
Page
Darwin, Charles 663
Darwin, Erasmus 424
Erasmus, note 426
Davbnant, Sir William .... 217
Davidson, John 839
Davie, Adam, nou 21
Davies, Scbopb 868
Davies, Sir John 176
Davis. Jefferson 866
Davis, Thomas O 714
De Benserade, Isaac 980
Dbbrett, John, note 432
Decatur, Stephen 863
De Caux, note 396
Defpand, Madame du 987
Defoe, Daniel 286
Dbkker, Thomas 181
De la FertE, note 430
De Lignb 989
De LTsle, Joseph R 990
Demodocus, note 400
De Morgan, note 290
Demosthenes 1047
De Musset, Alfred 993
Denham, Sir John 267
Denman, Lord 627
Dennis, John 282
De Quincey, note 365
Dibdin, Charles 436
Dibdin, Thomas 863
Dickens, Charles 701
Dickinson, John 426
Dickman, Franklin J., note . . . 699
Didacus Stella, note 185
Diodorus Siculus, note 1001
Diogenes Laertius 943
Dionysius or Halicarnassus, note 304
Dionysius the Elder 886
Disraeli, Benjamin 624
Benjamin, note .... 617
Dix, John A 865
Doane, William C., nou .... 693
Dobson, Henry A 816
Doddridge, Philip 359
Dodge, Mary A 809
Dodge, Mary M 810
Dodgson, Charles L 781
Dodsley, Robert 859
Dole, Charles F 826
Domett, Alfred 699
Donne, John 177
Dorr, Julia C 764
Doudnby, Sarah 819
Dowling, Bartholomew .... 766
Drake, Joseph Rodman .... 573
Drayton, Michael 40
Drbnnan, William 1047
Drummond, Thom.^s 589
XU
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
Page
UBUiaiONO. WXLUAIC ...... 196
WtuuiAii. note ... 170
Dbtdkn, John 267
JoHN» note 732
Dn Babtas 966
Dufferin, I^dy 637
Dumas, Alexander . . . 1001, 10.50
Dn Maueieb, Oeobge L 789
Duncombe, Lewis, note 459
D’Urfey, note 348
Dwight, John 8 716
Dwight, Timothy 882
Dyke, Edward 22
Dyke, John 358
Dyer 860
Eastwick, note 437
Eaton, Dorman B 1051
Edgeworth, Maria, note .... 283
Edwards, Richard 21
Edwards, Thomas 859
Edwin, John 439
Eliot, George 729
Elliot, Jared 392
Elliott, Jane 393
Ellis, George, note 175
Ellis, Henry 863
Emerson, Ralph Waldo .... 611
Ralph Waldo, note 511, 960
Emmet, Robert 863
English, Thomas Dunn .... 747
Epictetus 928
ER\s.MUS, note 3, 5, 216, 906
Estienne, Henri, note 379
Euripides 883
Euripides, note 277, 897, 999
Everett, David 459
Everett, Edward 571
Fader, Frederick W 717
Fanshawe, Catherine M. . . . 862
Farquhab, Georqb 305
FIinelon, note 353
Ferriar, John 456
Field, Eugene 830
Field, Nathaniel 858
Fielding, henry 382
Fields, James T 723
Finch, Francis M 766
FiTz-GEPPREY, Charles, note . . 305
FitzGerald, Edward 664
Fletcher, Andrew 281
Fletcher, John 183
Fletcher, Phineas, nou .... 327
Foote, Samuel 391
Ford, John 858
Foedyce, James 391
Fortbscub, John 7
Page
Foss, Sam W 839
Foster, Stephen C 764
FoucHfi, Joseph 991
Fournier, note 310, 1048
Fox, Charles J., note 364
Fox, John, note 484
Francis the First 999
France, Richard, note 305
Franklin, benjamin 359
Franklin, Kate 868
Freneau, Philip 443
Fbeke, J. Hookmam 462
Fbothingham, Richard, note . , 360
Fuller, Margaret W 857
Fuller, Thomas 221
Thomas, note 484
Gage, Thomas, note 495
Garnett, Richard 793
Garrick, 1>avid 387
Garrison, William L 633
Garth. Samuel 296
Samuel, note 181
Gascoigne, George, note .... 10
Gautier, theophilb, note .... 780
Gay, ,Tohn 347
Getty, Rev. Dr., note 673
Gibbon, Edward 430
Gibbons, Thomas 860
Gifford, Richard 393
Gilbert, William S 799
Gilder, Richard W 821
Gilfillan, Robert 596
Gilman, Charlotte P. S 843
Gladstone, William E 693
Goethe, Wolfgang von .... 989
note 638, 645. 674
Goldsmith. Oliver 394
Oliver, note . . 310, 602
Googe. Barnadt 6, 7
Gordon, Adam L 783
GOBGiAS. note 581
OossB, Edmund 814
Gosson, Stephen, note 917
Gower, John, note 13
Grafton, Richard 870
Granger, Jambs, note 395
Grant, Anne 862
Grant, Ulysses S 752
Graves, Richard 860
Richard, note 295
Gray, Thomas 381
Greeley, Horace 698
Orbbn. Matthew 354
Greene, Albert Q 610
Greene, Robert, note 190
Qrbswbll, note 332
OBBTILLB, Mrs 389
INDEX OF AUTHORS,
XIU
Paob
QBimN, Obbald 611
Gualtibb, PHUiipPB, note .... 64
Guarini, note 405
Habinqton, William 515
Hakbwill. Gborob 869
Oeobqb. note .... 160
Halb. Edwabd E 867
Halibubton, Thomas C 586
Hall, Bishop 182
Hall, Robbbt 457
Hallbck, Fitz-Grbbnb 561
Halliwbll, Jambs O 1045
Jambs O, note . . . 610
Hamilton, Alexander, note . . . 532
Hamilton, Eugene L 824
Hamilton, Gail 809
Hammond, J. H 636
Hannah, J., note 22
Hardy, Thomas 815
Hare, Julius, note 268
Harrington, Sir John 39
Harris, Joel C 828
Harrison, William 870
Hartb, Francis Bret ..... 813
Francis Brbt, note . . . 649
Harvey, Stephen 858
Hawker, Robert 862
Hawker, Robert S., note .... 873
Hay, John 810
Hayes, Edward, note 698
Haybs, Rutherford B 755
Haynb, Paul H 776
HAmTT, William, note . . . 887, 895
Hbatb, Leonard 623
Hebbb, Reginald 535
Heooe, Robert, note 181
Hemans, Felicia D 669
HfiNAUiT, note 325
Hendyng, note 7
Henley, William E 828
Henry, Mathew 282
Henry, Patrick 429
Hbnshaw, Joseph 263
Herbert, George 204
Herodotus, note 882, 099
Herrick, Robert 201
Hbrvet, Thomas K 622
Hesiod 878
Hewitt, Abram S 1051
Hbtwood, John 8
Hbtwood, Thomas . 104
Hill, Aaron 313
Hill, Rowland 863
Hinkson, Katharine T 846
Hippocrates 886
Hobbes, Thomas 200
Hoffman. Charles ^ 633
Page
Holcropt, Thomas 861
Holland, Josiau G 730
Josiah G., note .... 732
Holland, sib Richard 38
Holmes, Oliver Wendell . . . 688 Oliver Wendell, note 644, 698
Home, John 392
Hood, Thomas 591
Hooker, Joseph 866
Hooker, Richard 31
Hooper, Ellen Sturgis .... 719
Hopkins, Charles, note 689
Hopkinson, Joseph 465
Horace 892
Horne, Bishop 1045
Horne, Richard H 622
Housman, Alfred E 842
Hovey, Richard 846
Howard, Samuel 860
Howabth, Ellen C 766
How'e, Julia W 747
Howell, James, note . . 191, 203. 589
Howells, William D 800
How ITT, Mart 629
Hoyle, Edmund 1053
Hums, David 1040
David, note 604
HPNT, GW 867
Hunt, Leigh 536
Hurd, Richard 861
HURDis, James 4r>4
Hutcheson, Francis 1048
Huxley, Thomas H 762
Ibsen, Henrik 995
Henrik, note 705
Ingalls, John J 785
iNGELow, Jean 749
Ingbrsoll. Robert G 784
Ingram, John K 866
Irving, Washington 536
Jackson, Andrew 458
Jackson, Helen H 779
James, G. P. R 860
James, Paul M 528
Jefferson, Thomas 434
Jefferys, Charles 636
Jbrrold, Douglas 612
Johnson, Andrew 866
Johnson, Samuel 365
Samuel, note . . 185. 294, 807
Jones. Sir Willum 437
JONSON, Ben 177
JUVENAL 907
Keats, John 574
KEBLE, John 609
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INDEX OF AUTHORS,
Page
Kevblb, Francbs Anns .... 6S6
Kkmblb. j. p 445
KBMPM, THOMAS A 7
Kbn, Thomas 278
Kbnnby, Jambs 864
KBNRI0K, William, note .... 450
Kenyon, Jambs B 829
Kepler, John 858
Key, Francis S 517
Key, T. H., no«e 560
Kino, Benjamin F 838
Kino, William, note 217
Kinolake, John A 1052
Kingsley, Charles 727
Kipling, Rudyard 851
Knight, Charles, note 643
Knolles, Richard, note .... 267
Knott, James P 814
Knowles, James S 864
Knox, William 561
Kotzebue, Von 991
La Fontaine 983
Lamb, Charles 508
Charles, note 274
Lamont, Daniel S 1051
Landor, Walter S 511
Lang, Andrew 822
Langford, O. W 869
Langhor.ne, John 427
Lanier, Sidney 817
Lathrop, George P 832
La room, Lucy . . . 765
La Rochefoucauld 980
note 964
Layard, Austen H 724
Lear, Edward 702
Lecky, William E. H 810
Lee, Henry - 445
Lee, Nathaniel 281
Ls Oallienne, Richard .... 850
Leoare, James M 755
Leighton, Archbishop, no*e . . . 379
Leland Charles O 759
Lemon, Mark 662
Le Sage 986
L’Estranob, Roger ...... 858
LEUTSCH and SCHNSIDBWIN, noU . 979,
note . 1001
Lionb, Princb db 989
Lincoln, Abraham 660
Linley, Gborob 696
Linschotbn, Hugh tan 1053
Livy, note 13
Lloyd, David, note 310
LOCKBR'LAMPSON. Frbdericb . . 750
Fbbdbrxcb, note 720 Locbhabt, John G 865
Paob
Lockhart, John O., nofo . . 427, 490
Logan, John 438
Looau, Friedrich von 979
Longfellow, Henry W 038
Henry W., note . . 022
Lovelace, Richard 259
Lover, Samuel 500
Lowe, John 861
Lowell, James Russell .... 731
James Russell, note . . 721
Lowth, Robert 860
Lucretius 892
Ludgatb, John, note .•>
Luther, Martin 956
Lyly, John 31
Lyttf.l’I'on, Lord 377
Lytton, Sir E. bulwer .... 630
Lytton, Edward 779
Macaulay, Thomas B 599
T. B., note . 332, 635, 1048 MacCall, William, note .... 719
MacDonald, George 759
Mack ay, Charles 718
Mackintosh, James 457
James, note .... 291
Macklin, Charles 350
MacLeod, Norman 702
Madden, Samuel 314
Maeterlinck, Maurice .... 997
Mahon, Lord 1052
Lord, note 364, 474
Maltmus, note 663
Manners, Lord John 726
Marcus Aurelius 936
Marcy, William L 864
Markham, Edwin 833
Markham, Oervasb, note .... 187
Marlowe, Christopher .... 40
Marmion, Shakerly, note .... 171
Martial 908
Martin, Henri, Tiote 999
Marvell, Andrew 262
Marzials, Theodore 831
Mason, William 393
Massey, T. Gerald 771
Massinobr, Philip 194
McLennan, Isaac 634
McLeod, Fiona 837
McMastbr, John B., note .... 435
Mauls 1049
Mbe, William 868
Melchior, note 171
Menander, note .... 300, 800, 1038
Mercier, note 1000
Meredith, George 771
Meredith, Owen 770
Merrick, James 300
INDEX OF AUTHORS. XV
Page
Meubier, Gabriel, note .... 80
Michelangelo 956
Mickle, William J 426
Middleton, Thomas 172
Miller, Cincinnatus H 817
Miller, William 695
Milman, Henry Hart 564
Milnes, Richard M 664
Milton, John 223
John note 881
Mimnermds 885
Miner, Charles 528
Mitchell. Donald G 774
Mitchell S. Weir 774
Mom, George M 596
MoliEre 983
Monnoyb, Bernard db la, note . 400
Montagu, Mary Wortley . . . 350
Mary Wortley, note . 461
Montaigne 960
Montgomery, James 496
Montgomery, Robert 635
Montrose, Marquis of .... 257
Moody, William V 850
Moore. Clement C 527
Moore, Edward 377
Moore, George 835
Moore, Thomas 518
Thomas, note 644
More, Hannah 437
More, Hir Thomas, note . . 30, 1(X)
Morell, Thomas, note 281
Morgan, M. H . . 1052
Morley, John 812
Morris, Charles 432
Morris, George P 609
Morris, Sir Lewis 7S5
Morris, William 789
Morton, Thomas 457
Moss, Thomas 433
Motherwell, William 587
Moulton, Louise C 794
Muhlenberg, William A. ... 587
monster, Krnst F 999
Murphy, Arthur 393
Myers, Frederick W. H 810
Nadaud, Gustave 993
Nairns, Lady 458
Nancy, Lord 866
Napier, Sir W. F. P 537
Napoleon Bonaparte 1003
Napoleon, Louis 1002
Nash, Thomas 1053
Neaves, Lord Charles 005
Nelson, Horatio 446
Nbwbolt, Henry J. * 84U
Pagb
Newman, John H 607
Newton, Isaac 278
Nietzsche, Friedrich W 997
Noel, Thomas 599
Noel, Roden B. W 788
Norris, John 281
Northbrookb, nou 17
Norton, Caroline E. S 653
Noyes, Alfred 854
O’Hara, Kane 860
O’Hara, Theodore 866
O’Keefe, John 861
O’Kelley, Captain 1047
Oldham, John 366
Old Testament 1004
Oldys, William 859
Omar Khayyam 954
note . . 657, 666, 681, 683, 849
O’Meara, Barry E 863
O’Reilly, John B 820
Orrery, Roger B., note 258
ORTiN, Job, note 359
O’SHAUOHNESSY, ARTHUR W. E. . 819
Otway, Thomas 280
Overbury, Sir Thomas 193
Ovid 893
OxENSTiERN, note 195
Paine, Robert Treat 863
Paine, Thomas 431
Thomas, note 633
Paley, William 861
Palgrave, P’rancis T 702
Panat, Chevalier de 1003
Paracelsus, note 970
Pardoe, Ji’lia 867, 1052
Parker, Ewdard H 757
Parker, Martyn 176
Parker, THEODt>RE 694
Parnell, Thomas 305
Parsons, Thomas W 741
Pascal 984
note 169
Patmore, Coventry K. D. ... 757
Payne, J. Howard 668
Peele, George 24. 184, 530
Percival, James G 680
Percy, Thomas 404
Perry, Nora 781
Perry, Oliver H 864
Pbrsius, note 188, 306
Petrarch, note 296
Ph/edrus 901
PHILIPS, John 859
Phillips, Ambrose 859
Phillips, Charles . 865
Phillips, Wendell 699
Xvi INDEX OF AUTHORS.
Paob
PhxxiObtratxts. note 179
Piatt, Sarah M. B 803
PiKRPONT, John 538
PILPAY 877
Pinckney, Charles C 861
Pinckney, Bdward c 608
PiOEZi, Madame, mte .... 560, 992 Pitt, Karl op Chatham .... 364
Pitt, William 453
Pitt, William (the younger) . . 510
Plato, note 317
Plautus 886
Playford, John 870
Pliny the Elder 902
Pliny the Younger 934
Plutarch 908
note 903
Poe, Edgar A 654
POLLOK, Robert 597
PoMFRET, John 289
Pompadour. Madame de. note . . 205
Pope, Alexander 314
Alexander, note 988
Pope, Walter 858
Porter, Horace 867
Porter, Mrs. David 869
PORTEUS, Beilby 425
Potter, henry C 795
Powell, Sir John 278
PRAED, WINTHROP M 608
Priestley, Joseph 1050
pRUiRosE, Archibald P 827
Prior, James, note 412
Prior, Matthew 287
PROCLUS, note 926, 1003
PROCTER, Adelaide A 760
Procter, Bryan w 538
Proudfit, David L 818
PUBLIUS Syrus 894
note, 920
PuLTENBY, William 859
Quarles, Francis 203
Quincy, Josiah, Jr 436
Quincy, Josiah 505
Quintilian 907
Quitard, note 176
Babblais 956
note 944, 940. 955
Racine, note 391, 890
Radclxppb, ANN 456
Raleigh, Sib Walter 25
Ramsay, Allan 859
Randall, H. S. 1061
Randall, James R 813
Ranke, Leopold, note 956
Ranspord, Edwin 632
Page
Rasps, note 925
Ravenscbopt, Thomas 869
Ray, William, note 216
Read, Thomas B 751
Realp, Richard 788
Rhodes, William B 388
Richards. Amelia B., note . . . 533
Riley, James W 833
Robinson, Mary 862
Robinson, Edwin A 851
Roche, Jambs J 826
Rochester, Earl op 279
Rogers, Samuel 455
Roland, Madame 990
Roosbvei/t, Theodore 840
Roscommon, Earl of 278
Rosebery, Earl of 827
Rossetti, Christina G 776
Rossetti, Dante G 769
Rostand, Edmond 998
Rousseau 988
Rowe, Nicholas 301
Roydon, Mathew 23
Rumbold, Richard 868
Ruskin, John 746
Russell, George W 855
Russell, W. S 1052
Ryan, Richard 586
Saint Augustine 953
Saint Simon, note 189
Sala, George A., note 463
Sales, Saint Francis de, note . . 372
Salis, Von 091
Sallust, note 167
Salvandy, Comte db 1003
Sandys, Sir Edwin, note .... 314
SaNgster, Margaret E 811
Sargent, Epes 714
Savage, Richard 354
Saxe, John G 719
ScARRON, note 216
Schelling, note 999
SCHIDONI 979
Schiller 090
Scott, Sir Walter 487
Sir Walter, note .... 1044
Scott, Winpibld 864
Beaman. Owen 845
Sears, Edmund H 695
Sebashani, General 1001
Sedaine, Michel J 989
Sedley, Charles 859
Sbldbn, John 194
Sblvaggi, note 271
Seneca 900
note 960
BftviGN&, Madame de. note . 926, 987
INDEX OF AUTHORS. XVU
Pagb
Sewall, HabrieT W 731
Sbwall, Jonatban M 439
Seward, Thomas, note 189
Seward, William H 606
Sewell, Gborqe 859
Shaftesbury, Earl of, note , . . 581
Shakespeare, William 42
William, note . 773, 896,
967, 968, 969, 970, 974
Sharman, .Tulian, nou 12
Sharp, William 837
Shaw, Gborqe Bernard .... 838
Geobqe Bernard, note . . 098
Sheffield 279
Shelley, Percy B 664
Percy B., note .... 602
Shbnstone, William 379
Sheres, Sir Henry, note .... 13
Sherman, William T 867
Shrrid.vn, Helen S C37
Sheridan, R. Brinsley 440
Shirley, Jambs 209
Shorthouse, Joseph H 791
Sidney, Algernon 264
Sidney, Sir Philip 34
SiLius iTALicua, note 207
SXMS, Georg B R 827
SiRMOND, John 979
SlBMONDI 999
Skelton, John 8
Smart, Christopher 363
Smiles, Samuel 720
Smith, Adam 1060
Smith, Alexander 776
Smith, belle E 838
Smith, Captain John, note . . . 496
Smith, Edmund, note 333
Smith, IIobacb 617
Smith, James 610
Smith, Samuel F 664
Smith, Seba 668
Smith, Sydney 459
Smollett, Tobias 392
Smyth, william, no'-. ... . 391
Socrates, note G3
Somerville. William, note . . . 314
Sophocles 882
SoRBiENNB, note 286
South, Robert, note 310
Southerns, Thomas 282
Southey, Robert 506, 1045
SoiTTHwxLL. Robert, note .... 22
Sparks, Jared, note 903
Spencer, Herbert 773
Herbert, note .... 663
Spencer, William R 464
Spenser, Edmund 27
Spofford, Harri:ut V 707
Page
Sprague, Charles 564
StaEl, Madame de, noU . . 174, 999
Stedman, Edmund C 785
Steele, Sir Richard 297
Steers, Fanny 868
Stephen, J. K 867
Sterile, Laurence 378
Stebnhold, Thomas 23
Stevens, George a 860
Stevenson, Robert L 829
Stiles. Ezra 1051
Still, Bishop 22
Stoddard, Richard H 763
Stolderg, Christian, note . . . 503
Story, Joseph 863
Story, William W 745
Stoughton, William 266
Stowe, Harriet B 700
Stowell, Lord 437
Suckling, Sir John 256
Suetonius, note 307
Sumner, Charles 1051
Suttner, Baroness Von .... 868
Swift, Jonathan 289
Jonathan, note 982
Swinburne, Algernon C. ... 804
Algernon c., twXfi . 711
Symonds, John A 814
Tabb, John B 824
Tacitus 933
note 904, 913
Talfourd, Thomas N 579
Taney, Roger B 863
Tate and Brady 1043
Taylor, Bayard 761
Taylor, Henry 606
Taylor, Jane and Ann 534
Taylor, Jeremy, note .... 160, 193
Taylor, John 858
John, note 20
Temple, Sir William 266
Tennyson, Alfred 665
Alfred, note . 721, 771, 7^4
Terence 888
Tkrtullian 942
Thackeray, w. M., . . roo, note 800
Thaxtbr, Celia 792
Thayer, Ernest l 866
Thayer, William ll 842
Theobald, Louis 362
Theocritus, note 349
Theognis 880
Thomas, Frederick W 662
Thomson, Jambs . 365
Thompson, FRANcna 841
Thompson, Jambs M 821
Tjoreau, Henry D 722
XVlli INDEX OF
Paob
Thornburt, Oborob W 768
Thorpe, Rose H 831
Thralb, Mrs 432
Thucydides, note 912
Thdrlow, Lord 426
Tibullus, note 106
Tickell, Thomas 313
Tillotson, John 266
Tilton, Theodore 793
Titus, Colonel, note 352
Tobin, John 463
Tolowiez, note 953
Tolstoi, Count 996
Toplady, Augustus M., note . . 432
Tourneur, Cyril 34
Townley, James 380
Trowbridge, John T 766
Trumbull, John 439
Tucker. Dean 1050
Tukb, Samuel 858
Tupper, Martin F 695
Tusser, Thomas 20
Twain, Mark 795
Uhland, Johann L 992
Unknown authors 893
USTERI. J. M 991
Valerius Maximus, note .... 807
Vanbrugh, Sir John 870
Van Burbn, Martin, note .... 364
Vandyk, H. S 865
Van Dyke, henry 834
Henry, note .... 748
Varro, note 167
Vaughan, Henry 263
Vauvenargues 989
Vegetius, note 425
Venning, Ralph 262
Villon 955
Virgil, note 185, 893, 906
VOLNBY, note 602
Voltaire 986
note 890
Voss, J. H., note 1003
Wade, J. A 605
Walker, Willum 265
Wallace, Horace B., note . . . 361
Wallace, William R 731
Waller, Edmund 219
WALPOLE, Horace 389
Horace, note 602
Walpole, sib Robert 304
Walton, Izaak 20e
WARBUBTON, THOMAS ...... 1051
Warner, Wilmam .* 38
Ward, Artbmus 787
Ward, Mary A 832
AUTHORS.
Page
Ward, Thomas 1049
Warton, Thomas 403
Washington, George 426
Waterman, Nixon 842
Watson, William 840
Watts, Isaac 301
Webb, Charles H 792
Webster, Daniel 529
Webster, John 180
Welby, Amelia B 867
Wellington, duke op 463
Wells, W’illiam V 1050
Wesley, Charles 860
Wesley, John 359
Whetstone, George, note ... 14
Whewell, William 169
White, Henry Kirke, note . . . 602
Whitman, Sarah HP 613
Whitman, Walt 741
Walt, note 745
Whittier, John G 649
Whyte-Melville, George J. . , 750
Wight, Rezin A 1040
Wilcox, Ella W 8.35
Wilde, Oscar F. O 836
Wilde, Richard H 8G5
Willard, Emma 864
Williams, Helen M 862
Williams, Roger 208
W^iLLiAMs, Theodore C 835
Willis, Nathaniel P 723
Nathaphel P., note . . . 586
Wilson, Alexander 1052
Wilson, John, note .558
Winslow, Edward, note .... 283
Winter, William 802
Winthrop, John 858
Winthrop, Robert C 687
Wither, George 199
WoLCOT, John 431
Wolfe, Charles 563
WOLPE, James 861
Woodworth, Samuel 637
WooLSBY, Sarah C 824
Wordsworth, William 465
WoTTON, Sib Henry 174
Wrother, Miss 869
Wycherley, William, note . . . 462
Yalden, Thobias, note 181
Yeats, William B 848
Yonge, Nicholas, note 897
Young, Edward 306
Young, Sir John, note 177
Zamoyski, Jan 1002
Zanowill, 1 848
ZoucH, Thomas, note 200
Entry on Diogenes
DIOGENES LAERTIUS. Circa 200 A. D. ( From “ The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers.” Translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A., with occasional corrections. Bohn's Classical Library. ) Alcæus mentions Aristodemus in these lines : ' Tis money makes the man ; and he who's none Is counted neither good nor honourable. Thales. rii. Thales said there was no difference between life and death . “ Why, then ,” said some one to him , “ do not “ Because,” said he, “ it does make no difference." ix . When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, “ To know one's self.” And what was easy, “ To advise another.” Ibid . He said that men ought to remember those friends who were absent as well as those who were present. Ibid . The apophthegm “ Know thyself ” is his. xiii. Writers differ with respect to the apophthegms of the Seven Sages, attributing the same one to various authors. 1 xin. Solon . Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions ; ... that laws were like cobwebs, for that if any tri fling or powerless thing fell into them , they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off. Solon gave the following advice : “ Consider your hon our, as a gentleman , of more weight than an oath . Never tell a lie. Pay attention to matters of importance. ” xii. As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm , “ Nothing in excess." 2 xvi. 1 See Pope, page 317. Also Plutarch, page 736. 2 Mndèv ayav, nequid nimis. 758 DIOGENES LAERTIUS. " 3 Chilo advised, “ not to speak evil of the dead.” 1 Chilo . ii. Pittacus said that half was more than the whole. ? Pittacus. ir. Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him , saying, " Forgiveness is bet ter than revenge." ti. One of his sayings was, “ Even the gods cannot strive against necessity." iv . Another was, " Watch your opportunity.” rii. Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another ; for that most men were bad. Bias. Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words ; 5 but opportunity will prevail. Cleobulus. ir. The saying, “ Practice is everything, ” is Periander's. Periander . vi. Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that " the passengers were just that distance from death . ” 7 Anarcharsis. v. He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing. Ibid. 6 1 De mortuis nil nisi bonum ( Of the dead be nothing said but what is food .) – Of unknown authorship . 2 See Hesiod , page 693 . 3 Quoted by Epictetus ( Fragment Ixii . ) , “ Forgiveness is better than pun. ishment ; for the one is the proof of a gentle, the other of a savage nature." 4 See Shakespeare, page 115. 6 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin. - Proverbs x, 19. 6 See Publius Syrus, page 710. 7 " How thick do you judge the planks of our ship to be ? " " Some two good inches and upward," returned the pilot . “ It seems, then , we are within two fingers' breadth of damnation.” — RABELAIS : book iv. chap. xxiii. DIOGENES LAERTIUS. 759 It was a common saying of Myson that men ought not to investigate things from words, but words from things ; for that things are not made for the sake of words, but words for things. Myson. iii. Epimenides was sent by his father into the ield to look for a sheep, turned out of the road at mid -day and lay down in a certain cave and fell asleep, and slept there fifty -seven years ; and after that, when awake, he went on looking for the sheep, thinking that he had been taking a short nap." Epimenides. ii. There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink ; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake ; and there was one . Pherecydes. ii. Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite, — not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else . Anaximander. ii . Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, “ The descent to Hades is the same from every place. " Anaxagoras. vi. Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his come dies, as making the worse appear the better reason.2 Socrates. Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, “ How many things there are which I do not need ! ” Socrates said, “ Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods. " xi. 1 The story of Rip Van Winkle. 2 See Milton , page 226 . 760 DIOGENES LAERTIUS. zri. Ibid . He said that there was one only good , namely, knowl edge ; and one only evil , namely, ignorance. Socrates. xiv . He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance. Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, “ Whichever you do, you will repent it. " Ibid . He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live . ' Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, “ Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.” Aristippus. iv. Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world .? xiii . Like sending owls to Athens, as the proverb goes. Plato . xxxii. Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively. xl. Time is the image of eternity. ali. That virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness.3 alii. That the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are such beings as dæmons. Ibid . There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law ; that which arises from custom is the un written law. li . Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, “ Sacrifice to the Graces.” Xenocrates. iii . 1 See Plutarch , page 738. 2 See Garrison , page 605. 8 See Walton , page 207. In that ( virtue] does happiness consist. –ZENO ( page 764) . 4 See Chesterfield, page 353. DIOGENES LAERTIUS. 761 Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, “ My opinion is, ” and “ So and so will not agree to this .” Arcesilaus. xii. Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy ; he could go there with his eyes shut. Bion. iii. Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates ; and when the rest said, “ We are undone if we are known, " I," said he, “ am undone if we are not known.” Ibid. 66 But Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, “ That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him .” Ibid . Bion insisted on the principle that “ The property of friends is common .” 1 ix . Very late in life, when he was studying geometry, some one said to Lacydes, “ Is it then a time for you to be learning now ? " " If it is not,” he replied, " when will it be ? ” Lacydes. v. Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, “ That when they speak truth they are not believed ." Aristotle xi. The question was put to him , what hope is ; and his answer was, “ The dream of a waking man. Ibid . 992 He used to say that personal beauty was a better in . troduction than any letter ; 8 but others say that it was Diogenes who gave this description of it, while Aristotle called beauty " the gift of God ; " that Socrates called it “ a short- lived tyranny ; " Theophrastus, " a silent de ceit ; ” Theocritus, " an ivory mischief; " Carneades, “ a sovereignty which stood in need of no guards." Ibid. 1 All things are in common among friends. — DIOGENES ( page 763) . 2 See Prior, page 288. 8 See Publius Syrus, page 709. 762 DIOGENES LAERTIUS. “ As On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much edu. cated men were superior to those uneducated : much , ” said he, “ as the living are to the dead.” 1 Aristotle . xi. It was a saying of his that education was an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. Ibid. He was once asked what a friend is, and his answer was, “ One soul abiding in two bodies. " 2 Ibich Asked what he gained from philosophy, he answered, “ To do without being commanded what others do from fear of the laws. " Ibid. The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friends ; and the answer he gave was, “ As we should wish our friends to behave to us.” Ibid. He used to define justice as “ a virtue of the soul dis tributing that which each person deserved.” Ibid , Another of his sayings was, that education was the best viaticum of old age. Ibid. The chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life . ziii. He used to teach that God is incorporeal, as Plato also asserted, and that his providence extends over all the heavenly bodies. Ibid . It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend. Theophrastus. 1. Antisthenes used to say that envious people were de voured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Antisthenes. iv. i Quoted with great warmth by Dr. Johnson ( Boswell ) . — LANGTOX : Collectanea . 2 See Pope, page 340. 8 See Franklin , page 361. DIOGENES LAERTIUS. 763 thing." 1 When he was praised by some wicked men, he said, “ I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked Antisthenes. iv. When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said , “ Not to unlearn what you have learned . ” Ibid. Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry. Diogenes. iv. “ Bury me on my face,” said Diogenes ; and when he was asked why, he replied, “ Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.” ri . One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad ; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger. Ibid . All things are in common among friends. Ibiil. “ Be of good cheer,” said Diogenes ; “ I see land." Ibid . Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, “ This is Plato's man .” On which account this addition was made to the defini tion, “ With broad flat nails." Ibid . A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time and he made answer, “ If you are a rich man, whenever you please ; and if you are a poor man, when ever you can . " 3 Ibid . Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, “ I am looking for a man . Toid . for supper, " 4 i See Plutarch, page 733. 2 See Terence, page 705. Also, page 761 . 3 The rich when he is hungry, the poor when he has anything to eat . - RABELAIS : book ir . chap . lxir . 4 The same is told of Æsop. 764 DIOGENES LAERTIUS. When asked what he would take to let a man give him a blow on the head, he said, “ A helmet. " Diogenes. vi. Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him , “ Courage, my boy ! that is the complexion of virtue. ” Ibid . When asked what wine he liked to drink, he replied, “ That which belongs to another." Ibid. Asked from what country he came, he replied, " I am a citizen of the world .” 2 ri . When a man reproached him for going into unclean places, he said , “ The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them .” 3 Ibid. Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, “ It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper." Menedemus. iii. When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied , « Another I." 4 Zeno. rir . They say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself. lii . One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, with out being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness con sist.5 liri. The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides . Irriii. They also say that God is an animal immortal, ra tional, perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsus ceptible of any kind of evil , having a foreknowledge of 1 See Mathew Henry, page 283. 8 See Bacon , page 169. 6 See page 760. 2 See Garrison , page 605 . 4 See page 762. DIOGENES LAERTIUS. 765 the universe and of all that is in the universe ; however, that he has not the figure of a man ; and that he is the creator of the universe, and as it were the Father of all things in common , and that a portion of him pervades everything Zeno. lxxi . But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a con nected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated . lxxiv. Apollodorus says, “ If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.” Chrysippus. iii . One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, “ If you have not lost a thing, you have it. " xi. Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals. Pythagoras. iv. He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin . vi. Among what he called his precepts were such as these : Do not stir the fire with a sword. Do not sit down on a bushel. Do not devour thy heart.2 xvii. In the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase " Ipse dixit " was introduced into ordinary life . 1 Xru . Xenophanes was the first person who asserted ... that the soul is a spirit. Xenophanes. ii . It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. Ibid. Protagoras asserted that there were two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other. Protagoras. ii . 1 See Hall , page 457. 2 See Spenser, page 30. 8 Aůrds épa ( The master said so ). 766 DIOGENES LAERTIUS. - ATHENÆUS. 1 Nothing can be produced out of nothing. Diogenes of Apellona. i. Xenophanes speaks thus : And no man knows distinctly anything, And no man ever will . Pyrrho. viii. Democritus says, “ But we know nothing really ; for truth lies deep down. " Ibid . Euripides says , Who knows but that this life is really death, And whether death is not what men call life ? Ibid . The mountains, too, at a distance appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand, they are rough. " ir . If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true. xi. The chief good is the suspension of the judgment, which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow . Ibid . Epicurus laid down the doctrine that pleasure was the chief good . Epicurus ri. He alludes to the appearance of a face in the orb of the moon . Fortune is unstable, while our will is free. xxriä. xxr . ATHENÆUS. Circa 200 A. D. ( Translation by C. D. Yonge, B. A.) It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that “ Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had , — being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity . " ; The Deipnosophists. vi. 23. 1 See Shakespeare, page 146 . 2 See Campbell, page 512. 8 Said with reference to mining operations. ATHENÆUS. – AUGUSTINE. — ALI TALEB. 767 Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.1 The Deipnosophists. rii. 11 . Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the “ Nautilus ” of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan. ” viii. 19. On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine- cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old . “ It is very small for its age, ” said Gnathæna. xiii . 47. Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. xiv. 46. SAINT AUGUSTINE. 354-430 . When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday ; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday .* Epistle 36. To Casulanus. The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light, although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.5 Works. Vol. iii. In Johannis Evangelum, c. tr.5, Sect. 15. -
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