This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...country one is banished, tortured and insulted, let us without claiming a share in the ability to manage a city by persuasion, be content to live the quiet life of a philosopher. I, 234, Very few if any of the tyrants have been overthrown by '"""" their mercenaries, whereas many statesmen have been rejected by their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...country one is banished, tortured and insulted, let us without claiming a share in the ability to manage a city by persuasion, be content to live the quiet life of a philosopher. I, 234, Very few if any of the tyrants have been overthrown by '"""" their mercenaries, whereas many statesmen have been rejected by their fellow citizens, and slaughtered like cattle, nay they are worse off than cattle, for the butcher does not hate the cattle, but the tortures of the dying statesmen are made more poignant by hatred. I, 235, col. It is claimed for rhetoric that it protects property like a strong tower. First if we are not rich we do not need rhetoric. Secondly it is much better to lose one's wealth if one can not keep it otherwise, than to spend one's life in rhetoric. But Cephenides (Drone) the rich man is a prey to slaves and prophets as well as to sycophants. I, 236, col.... they are unable to make the multitude friendly to them, as the crowd of politicians can. I, 237, col. The philosophers are not vexed if people, like foolish sheep "" or cattle, attend to an inferior, but are satisfied that what they say, particularly about the attitude of the common people, shall please the few; and in action they are most blameless, nor do they as slaves of all, try to rule everything for themselves. For they do not expect to satisfy their wants at the expense of the public. But those philosophers who envy other's property while they pretend to need nothing, and are detected being coy, these men the people despise, but consider them less wretched than the rhetors, because so many obtain the same result that the rhetors obtain. I, 239, col. It is numbered among the glories of rhetoric that it can "sail. the deep seas"5 while those who...
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