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1 1 | and the most senseless of human beings. You will ask what
2 1 | of two kinds: there are human and there are divine goods,
3 1 | are divine goods, and the human hang upon the divine; and
4 1 | with a view to these, the human looking to the divine, and
5 1 | dispute about them. As in the human body, the regimen which
6 2 | whether the insight into human nature is the only benefit
7 2 | relaxed and corrupted in human life. And the Gods, pitying
8 2 | if they were all one. But human poets are fond of introducing
9 3 | shepherds—small sparks of the human race preserved on the tops
10 3 | the last extremity, the human race may still grow and
11 3 | customs in things divine and human, which they would have received
12 3 | possible—at any rate, things human—may come to pass in accordance
13 3 | ignorance of the most important human affairs. That was then,
14 3 | affecting the great mass of the human soul; for the principle
15 3 | In the next place, some human wisdom mingled with divine
16 4 | principle applies equally to all human things?~Cleinias. To what
17 4 | in anything, but that in human affairs chance is almost
18 4 | him in the government of human affairs. There is, however,
19 4 | were declaring, that no human nature invested with supreme
20 4 | supreme power is able to order human affairs and not overflow
21 4 | Wherefore, seeing that human things are thus ordered,
22 4 | considering that in a manner the human race naturally partakes
23 5 | is possible. And of all human possessions, the soul is
24 5 | severally to be. But of human things we have not as yet
25 5 | and desires are a part of human nature, and on them every
26 6 | incorruptible form of which human things admit: this shall
27 6 | and just that part of the human race which is by nature
28 6 | should understand that the human race either had no beginning
29 6 | other hand, we hear of other human beings who did not even
30 7 | voyage of life best. Now human affairs are hardly worth
31 7 | grant, if you wish, that the human race is not to be despised,
32 7 | shrines, and bring upon human nature the reproach, that
33 7 | necessity; for as to the human necessities of which the
34 7 | which are divine and not human?~Athenian. I conceive them
35 8 | amid the corruptions of human souls, opposing the mightiest
36 8 | provisions do, as far as human means can effect anything,
37 8 | destroying the seeds of human increase, or sowing them
38 8 | the rebelliousness of the human heart when I said that the
39 8 | possible, and not beyond human nature?~Cleinias. By all
40 8 | occupation; and hardly any human being is capable of pursuing
41 9 | provident eye to the weakness of human nature generally, I will
42 9 | temples is not an ordinary human malady, nor yet a visitation
43 9 | best, in whatever part of human nature states or individuals
44 9 | to know what is best for human society; or knowing, always
45 9 | private good as secondary. Human nature will be always drawing
46 10| can have no care at all of human affairs, and that all religion
47 10| exist, but take no heed of human things, and the other notion
48 10| that they take no heed of human affairs: To him we say—O
49 10| have no thought or care of human things. Now, that your present
50 10| other meaner things, is a human quality, but the Gods have
51 10| Impossible.~Athenian. Do not all human things partake of the nature
52 10| then, deem God inferior to human workmen, who, in proportion
53 11| craftsmen who have furnished human life with the arts is dedicated
54 11| observation or consideration of human things.~Cleinias. What do
55 11| of taking an interest in human affairs, about which there
56 11| reach the utmost limit of human life, or if taken away before
57 11| are many noble things in human life, but to most of them
58 12| manifest the wickedness of human nature, let the law ordain
59 12| political, of which, as of a human creature, we will ask a
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