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1 I, 4 | even endured torments and death. For the precepts of righteousness
2 I, 5 | the subject of premature death, he said "You do not understand
3 I, 8 | inasmuch as they are doomed to death by the condition of their
4 I, 9 | HERCULES AND HIS LIFE AND DEATH.~Did not Hercules, who is
5 I, 10| disgrace to Apollo? His death was certainly more renowned,
6 I, 10| him, and did not await his death though he was aged and worn
7 I, 11| ORIGIN, LIFE, REIGN, NAME AND DEATH OF JUPITER, AND OF SATURN
8 I, 11| Cupid, but to everlasting death. But let us cease to speak
9 I, 11| bound by the necessity of death? Why, then, do men raise
10 I, 11| he might have been put to death, as his elder brother had
11 I, 11| brother had been put to death; and if it had been possible
12 I, 11| should also investigate his death. Ennius, in his sacred history,
13 I, 11| their lives or after their death gave their names to mountains
14 I, 13| report, but put them to death; although it is written
15 I, 13| must fear both violence and death. Orpheus, who lived in more
16 I, 14| sent to seize or put him to death, scarcely found a place
17 I, 15| had civilized, after their death left regret of themselves.
18 I, 15| consoled himself concerning the death of his daughter, did not
19 I, 17| consecrated after their death. And on this account also
20 I, 17| and of that age at which death arrested each. Let us consider,
21 I, 18| overthrow towns, to put to death or enslave free peoples.
22 I, 19| bring forth everlasting death. ~
23 I, 20| name Leaena, had put to death a tyrant among them, because
24 I, 21| sacrifice, when they put to death so large a part of the state,
25 I, 21| speaking, on hearing the death of his father: "I will now
26 I, 21| men. For Romulus after his death became Quirinus, and Leda
27 I, 22| intoxicated, was beaten to death by her husband with myrtle
28 II, 1 | have no existence after death, they altogether give themselves
29 II, 1 | unconsciously run into the snares of death; for they are ignorant as
30 II, 2 | had either been removed by death or separated by absence.
31 II, 2 | and condemn yourselves to death; for nothing is lower and
32 II, 2 | humble than the earth, except death and hell. And if you wished
33 II, 3 | you ought to have despised death. And, indeed, it would have
34 II, 4 | circumstance, that before his own death he heard of the most cruel
35 II, 10| of the lower regions, and death. For these things are as
36 II, 10| belongs to the west: but death and destruction are contained
37 II, 10| contained a figure of life and death, because life consists in
38 II, 10| because life consists in heat, death in cold. And as heat arises
39 II, 10| the actual infliction of death on him who had been thus
40 II, 10| inclination, shows a figure of death. Therefore the cattle do
41 II, 13| SEXES; WHAT IS HIS FIRST DEATH, AND WHAT THE SECOND AND
42 II, 13| darkness, from life and death; and he has admonished us
43 II, 13| everlasting darkness and death. And the force of this is
44 II, 13| that punishment the second death, which is itself also perpetual,
45 II, 13| We thus define the first death: Death is the dissolution
46 II, 13| define the first death: Death is the dissolution of the
47 II, 13| living beings; or thus: Death is the separation of body
48 II, 13| we thus define the second death: Death is the suffering
49 II, 13| define the second death: Death is the suffering of eternal
50 II, 13| of eternal pain; or thus: Death is the condemnation of souls
51 II, 13| common air, are dissolved by death. Therefore in this union
52 II, 13| transgressed them, be punished with death. It was enjoined that he
53 II, 13| earth; and having removed death, recall righteous men, His
54 II, 13| explain those which are first. Death therefore followed man,
55 II, 13| might come to the fate of death, and receive the knowledge
56 III, 8 | labour, nor wounds, nor death itself, ought to be refused
57 III, 12| by its enemies, suffers death, so the soul, when overpowered
58 III, 12| condition it is exposed to death, inasmuch as it often refuses
59 III, 12| others, and bravely undergoes death, which others fear; if it
60 III, 12| and overcome even until death, cannot fail of obtaining
61 III, 12| the subject of premature death, he says: "Virtue is the
62 III, 12| short it is, or undergo death, unless through the hope
63 III, 12| voluntarily offered themselves to death for the safety of their
64 III, 12| would never have preferred death to the advantages of life,
65 III, 14| worn out by old age and death before they have determined
66 III, 17| with impunity: he saw that death raged without any regard
67 III, 17| were cut off by an untimely death in the first flower of youth;
68 III, 17| releases us from the fear of death, respecting which these
69 III, 17| When we are in existence, death does not exist; when death
70 III, 17| death does not exist; when death exists, we have no existence:
71 III, 17| no existence: therefore death is nothing to us."~How cleverly
72 III, 17| deceived us! As though it were death now completed which is an
73 III, 17| ourselves even yet exist, and death does not yet exist; and
74 III, 17| to be miserable, because death is beginning to exist, and
75 III, 17| said without reason that death is not miserable. The approach
76 III, 17| miserable. The approach of death is miserable; that is, to
77 III, 17| not because they bring death, but because they bring
78 III, 17| precedes or brings about death is an evil? Why should I
79 III, 17| let us plunder and put to death. For it is the part of the
80 III, 17| because souls die after death, and that there is no future
81 III, 17| be for his own sake; that death is not to be feared by a
82 III, 18| FOOLISHLY PERSUADE A VOLUNTARY DEATH.~Others, again, discuss
83 III, 18| the soul survives after death; and these are chiefly the
84 III, 18| he offered up his head to death;"~and nothing can be more
85 III, 18| he who puts himself to death is under the same guilt,
86 III, 18| guilt, because he puts to death a man. Yea, that crime may
87 III, 18| with equanimity, since the death of an innocent person cannot
88 III, 18| before he put himself to death, is said to have read through
89 III, 18| have had some cause for death in his hatred of slavery.
90 III, 18| nor Cato to a voluntary death, but he would have trained
91 III, 18| Cato sought a cause for death, not so much that he might
92 III, 18| return to those who praise death as a benefit. You complain
93 III, 18| with life, have recourse to death."~You are indignant that
94 III, 19| AND THAT A GOOD OR AN EVIL DEATH MUST BE WEIGHED FROM THE
95 III, 19| assert the advantage of death, because they know nothing
96 III, 19| If there is nothing after death, death is not an evil; for
97 III, 19| is nothing after death, death is not an evil; for it takes
98 III, 19| But if the soul survives, death is even an advantage; because
99 III, 19| congratulate ourselves, since death is about to bring either
100 III, 19| therefore, should ask me whether death is a good or an evil, I
101 III, 19| spent viciously, so also death is to be weighed in accordance
102 III, 19| passed in the service of God, death is not an evil, for it is
103 III, 19| immortality. But if not so, death must necessarily be an evil,
104 III, 19| error who either desire death as a good, or flee from
105 III, 19| we imagine to be life is death, and that that which we
106 III, 19| that that which we fear as death is life; and so that the
107 III, 19| that the second is an early death. And that this sentiment
108 III, 20| vanity, that before his death he asked his friends to
109 III, 23| slay themselves, that by death they may avoid death. So
110 III, 23| by death they may avoid death. So these men, without honour
111 III, 26| who is afraid of pain and death; he shall presently despise
112 III, 27| But how much time does death occupy? on the arrival of
113 III, 27| where virtue is subject to death and decay. Therefore they
114 III, 28| on a contest for life and death with fortune. Now, as many
115 III, 28| persons on account of the death and removal of friends,
116 III, 29| of sin, may impel them to death; or, if he shall have not
117 IV, 1 | delighted, they sought eternal death for themselves, together
118 IV, 1 | all bodies are subject to death. Superstitions of this kind,
119 IV, 4 | the penalty of everlasting death, which is the punishment
120 IV, 4 | perpetual power of life and death. And he who does not adore
121 IV, 5 | be freed from error and death, who despise and refuse
122 IV, 8 | of a body, and subject to death. But with whom could God
123 IV, 10| wicked men, and might undergo death, that, having subdued this
124 IV, 10| the hope of overcoming death, and might admit him to
125 IV, 11| might incur the penalty of death by their fault if they should
126 IV, 12| THE VIRGIN; OF HIS LIFE, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION, AND THE
127 IV, 12| nations, He might also suffer death, that He might overcome
128 IV, 16| design of putting Him to death, and torturing Him: of which
129 IV, 16| condemn him to a shameful death. Such things have they imagined,
130 IV, 16| stirred up to put Him to death. Now His humility emboldened
131 IV, 17| which are nourished only for death; lest, by devoting themselves
132 IV, 17| and should be visited with death. Also that they should not
133 IV, 18| must suffer and be put to death for the salvation of many,
134 IV, 18| that He, having been put to death by the Jews, would rise
135 IV, 18| punishment, yet He was put to death, and that, too, by an impious
136 IV, 18| perseveringly maintained even to His death, Isaiah thus spoke again: "
137 IV, 18| their God, and put Him to death, these testimonies of the
138 IV, 18| people He was led away to death. And I will give Him the
139 IV, 18| burial, and the rich for His death, because He did no wickedness,
140 IV, 18| because He was delivered up to death, and was reckoned among
141 IV, 19| XIX. OF THE DEATH, BURIAL, AND RESURRECTION
142 IV, 19| Where is thy judgment, O death? or where is thy sting?"
143 IV, 19| sleep he would put an end to death:--~"And after sleeping three
144 IV, 19| put an end to the fate of death;and then, releasing Himself
145 IV, 19| life for us by overcoming death. No hope, therefore, of
146 IV, 20| unless Christ had undergone death the testament could not
147 IV, 20| Christ, who, having suffered death for us, made us heirs of
148 IV, 20| against me the sentence of death and the cross. For that
149 IV, 21| when Nero had put them to death, Vespasian destroyed the
150 IV, 22| sufferings, to pain, and death:as though it had not been
151 IV, 22| not at least in His very death reveal His majesty? but
152 IV, 22| who was guilty, was put to death as one who was mortal. I
153 IV, 23| forbid me to fear pain or death; but this is so contrary
154 IV, 24| it is virtue not to fear death itself when threatened,
155 IV, 24| angry, which fears pain and death. And thus I am led on against
156 IV, 24| this life. You do not fear death, because it can have no
157 IV, 24| not able to bear pain or death for righteousness, because
158 IV, 24| am frail. See, pain and death have power over me also;
159 IV, 24| victorious over pain and death. I go before you through
160 IV, 24| Also, he must be subject to death and all sufferings, since
161 IV, 24| suffering, and the undergoing death; all which, as I have said,
162 IV, 25| torture, and be sentenced to death. For since there was no
163 IV, 25| leads it from immortality to death. Therefore the spirit, apart
164 IV, 25| food and nourishment of death. For this cause, therefore,
165 IV, 25| He might rescue man from death, which has dominion over
166 IV, 25| visit it with everlasting death. And that we might be able
167 IV, 26| fall, walks in the way of death. Likewise He cleansed the
168 IV, 26| He brought them back from death. What is more suitable to
169 IV, 26| revealed the secrets of death? But this unspeakable power
170 IV, 26| from God and subject to death, being animated by the knowledge
171 IV, 26| into the snares of eternal death. The actions, therefore,
172 IV, 26| of pain and contempt of death, by which virtue is rendered
173 IV, 26| not refuse even to undergo death, that under His guidance
174 IV, 26| guidance man might triumph over death, subdued and bound in chains
175 IV, 26| Father chose that kind of death in preference to others,
176 IV, 26| some honourable kind of death? why was it by the cross
177 IV, 27| by which alone eternal death can be escaped. They are
178 IV, 28| same manner after their death, therefore they are superstitious
179 IV, 30| people to the darkness of death: I will explain: how this
180 V, 1 | therefore they torture, put to death, and banish the worshippers
181 V, 1 | able to deliver these from death, to which they are hastening
182 V, 3 | since they not only endured death for their faith, but also
183 V, 3 | especially befall him after death which even the greatest
184 V, 3 | illustrious deeds, or even by death undergone in behalf of their
185 V, 3 | could not therefore after death be believed to be a god,
186 V, 9 | whereas, if they should put to death the wicked only, they would
187 V, 9 | except that they are put to death or led away to slavery!
188 V, 9 | through fear of pain or death, or by their own perfidy,
189 V, 11| wild terrors swarm,~And Death glares grim in many a form."~
190 V, 11| determines to put no one to death. Therefore it cannot be
191 V, 11| torture: as though, in truth, death alone could make them happy,
192 V, 12| do not think it worthy of death only, but it is esteemed
193 V, 12| tortures, condemns, and puts to death good and righteous men,
194 V, 13| tortured and to be put to death; whereas they might see
195 V, 13| that it is defended even to death, that there is some foundation
196 V, 13| that he could not escape death, laid his hand upon the
197 V, 14| while to suffer torture and death rather than betray a trust
198 V, 14| or, overcome by fear of death or severity of pain, commit
199 V, 14| no tortures, no kind of death, that they may not turn
200 V, 14| have any courage to despise death and pain. But if we possess
201 V, 14| regard him who despises death as a madman, which is plainly
202 V, 17| justice not to put a man to death, not to take the property
203 V, 18| die than put another to death. Nor will justice, which
204 V, 19| that man is destroyed by death. And from this persuasion
205 V, 19| have no existence after death, assuredly it is the part
206 V, 20| because they cause their own death by serving most abandoned
207 V, 20| defended, not by putting to death, but by dying; not by cruelty,
208 V, 20| patient endurance or by death; in which the preservation
209 V, 20| because he has undergone death for his leader; how much
210 V, 20| adulteress, but either the death of her husband, or that
211 V, 23| which is defended even to death, which is preferred to all
212 VI, 1 | greatest precipitation to death. For, as we showed in the
213 VI, 1 | engaged with darkness and death, which belong to the earth
214 VI, 3 | referred to life, their ends to death. We therefore speak better
215 VI, 4 | are about to follow after death, and shall have turned aside
216 VI, 6 | punishment of everlasting death, which is the greatest evil.
217 VI, 6 | which neither any man, nor death itself, can take away from
218 VI, 6 | who despoils, who puts to death? And they who strive to
219 VI, 7 | that way of destruction and death which has many windings,
220 VI, 7 | distinction, and plunges them into death. But this way--which is
221 VI, 9 | want, exile, pain, and death, which are feared by others,
222 VI, 12| prevented from undergoing death in behalf of justice and
223 VI, 17| exile, or imprisonment, or death; and if any one does not
224 VI, 17| recollection of various kinds of death, when the butchery of savage
225 VI, 17| monsters has raged even beyond death itself. But a happy and
226 VI, 17| is full of activity, but death is quiet. They also rightly
227 VI, 17| it is a virtue to despise death; not that we seek it, and
228 VI, 17| should prefer to undergo death, and should defend our liberty
229 VI, 17| which others fear--pain and death. This is virtue; this is
230 VI, 17| can be just who fears death, or pain, or exile, or want."
231 VI, 17| inferior, who, when he sees death at hand, is not so disturbed
232 VI, 20| punish him with everlasting death. The pleasure arising from
233 VI, 20| placed under the stroke of death, and entreating mercy, not
234 VI, 20| suffer them to be put to death, but also demand it, and
235 VI, 20| inhuman votes for their death, not being satiated with
236 VI, 20| delude them by a pretended death. They are even angry with
237 VI, 20| whether you put a man to death by word, or rather by the
238 VI, 20| is the act of putting to death itself which is prohibited.
239 VI, 20| always unlawful to put to death a man, whom God willed to
240 VI, 20| souls for life, and not for death. But men, that there may
241 VI, 21| he designs for himself death; for as there is perpetual
242 VI, 21| life in virtue, so there is death in pleasure. For he who
243 VI, 22| pleasure is the contriver of death. For as God calls man to
244 VI, 22| so the other calls us to death by delights and pleasures;
245 VI, 22| brought under the dominion of death with the body itself, to
246 VI, 24| foreign travel, another by death, another by infirm health;
247 VI, 24| of a dumb animal, nor of death and blood, but of man and
248 VII, 1 | proceed along the way of death, which is very broad, since
249 VII, 5 | did He make him subject to death and decay? why did He expose
250 VII, 5 | the contempt of pain and death. In like manner, the things
251 VII, 5 | refuse neither torture nor death in behalf of the faith,
252 VII, 6 | if we are nothing after death,--what can be so superfluous,
253 VII, 6 | worship of those who after death are about to have no existence?
254 VII, 6 | Or if souls remain after death, what do they do or are
255 VII, 8 | respecting immortality and death, declared that he did not
256 VII, 9 | which are weighty depress to death, and those which are light
257 VII, 9 | because life is on high, and death below. And as there cannot
258 VII, 9 | endeavours to lead them to death, which dissolves the living
259 VII, 9 | it neither fears pain nor death, that it may discharge its
260 VII, 9 | which it despises. But when death has been undergone, what
261 VII, 10| VIRTUES, AND OF LIFE AND DEATH.~Let us now in turn pass
262 VII, 10| is never ended except by death, since its highest office
263 VII, 10| is in the undergoing of death: therefore the reward of
264 VII, 10| reward of virtue is after death. In fine, Cicero, in his
265 VII, 10| happen to man except after death. "A man will go," he says, "
266 VII, 10| circumstances shall so happen, to death in which we have ascertained
267 VII, 10| chief good or no evil." Death, therefore, does not extinguish
268 VII, 10| writings call the second death, which is both eternal and
269 VII, 10| belongs to the body; so also death is in like manner temporary
270 VII, 11| which God has appointed for death shall be completed, death
271 VII, 11| death shall be completed, death itself shall be ended. And
272 VII, 11| ended. And because temporal death follows temporal life, it
273 VII, 11| everlasting life, because temporal death has received an end. Again,
274 VII, 11| its immortality; also its death must be eternal, in which
275 VII, 11| the soul is not subject to death? For, as to the body, since
276 VII, 11| pain, in the contempt of death. From which it is credible
277 VII, 12| which separation is called death, then each returns into
278 VII, 12| it will become subject to death, since virtue, as we have
279 VII, 12| immortality, as pleasure is of death. But death, as I have set
280 VII, 12| pleasure is of death. But death, as I have set forth, does
281 VII, 12| complained of his dissolution in death; but he perhaps had seen
282 VII, 12| Epicurean philosophizing even in death, and with his latest breath
283 VII, 12| worn out with old age and death, and gain admission into
284 VII, 13| whether the soul remains after death or goes to dissolution;
285 VII, 14| themselves immortality, but death by their sins and lusts;
286 VII, 15| what remains, except that death follow old age? And that
287 VII, 16| plunder, spoil, and put to death. And at length, the name
288 VII, 16| but He will not hear them; death shall be desired, but it
289 VII, 20| loosing fate and the sting of death; andafterwards I will call
290 VII, 20| sensible of pain, and even of death. If it is not liable to
291 VII, 20| If it is not liable to death, not even to pain, it follows
292 VII, 20| annihilated by the intervention of death: that the souls, moreover,
293 VII, 21| immediately judged. after death. For all are detained in
294 VII, 22| thousand years from their death, but that, when again restored
295 VII, 22| pass a happy life whose death has been annulled. But the
296 VII, 23| and that we, after our death, when certain periods of
297 VII, 27| gives rest, in the place of death life, in the place of darkness
298 VII, 27| be undergone, in short, death itself must be undertaken
299 VII, 27| possible, be deserted, in which death is concealed, being covered