 | Caroline Bigelow Le Row - 1888 - 232 pages
...might help to avert all danger. Plato says that the punishment which the wise man suffers who refuses to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men. But did any wise man ever so refuse, or, refusing, did he not fairly forfeit the claim to be called... | |
 | Charles Edmond Akers - 1893 - 202 pages
...from reaping the full benefit of their labour, and retard s_their progress at every turn of the wheel. Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer...government is to live under the government of worse men. This is a maxim that the foreigners in Argentina will do well to take seriously to heart. The remedy... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...punishment of criminals should be of use ; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. / 'oltaire. 15 The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to...is to live under the government of worse men. The pure in heart shall see God. Jesus. The purer the golden vessel the more readily is it bent ; the higher... | |
 | 1899 - 704 pages
...punishment of criminals should be of use ; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. / 'oUaire. 15 The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to...government, is to live under the government of worse men. Emerson. The pure in heart shall see God. Jesus. The purer the golden vessel the more readily is it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 542 pages
...time, a selfish enjoyment of his sensations, and loss of perception of the sufferings of the audience. Plato says, that the punishment which the wise suffer,...government, is, to live under the government of worse men ; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak, —... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 pages
...foundation of all states is in good laws and good arme.— Machiavelli. The punishment suffered by the wise ds bad men. — Plato. Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carta and crutches. — Our... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 334 pages
...perception of the sufferings of the audience. Plato says that the punishment which the wise Buffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men ; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak, —... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 498 pages
...time, a selfish enjoyment of his sensations, and loss of perception of the sufferings of the audience. Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer...government, is, to live under the government of worse men ; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak, —... | |
 | George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley - 1913 - 376 pages
...the fleet was still a matter of conjecture. 4. The reports from the front made Washington anxious. 5. Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer...government, is, to live under the government of worse men. — EMERSON. 6. I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still. — JOHNSON. 7. Moses... | |
 | 1913 - 662 pages
...of interest, to some, but not so to the thoughtful. Plato says: "The punishment suffered by the wise who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of bad men." While Coleridge wrote: "The only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious... | |
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Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men... 
