CHARON Your fare, you rascal. MENIPPUS Bawl away, Charon, if it gives you any pleasure. CHARON I brought you across: give me my fare. MENIPPUS I can't, if I haven't got it. CHARON And who is so poor that he has not got a penny? MENIPPUS I for one; I don't know who else. CHARON Pay: or, by...
"I cannot live with myself any longer." This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought it was. `Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two...
A somewhat similar case is the idea that deceives the mass of mankind, that if they could live in big houses, and get together a quantity of slaves and money, they would have a happy life. But a happy and cheerful life is not from without,...
In Unto This Last (1862), John Ruskin, who had been as concerned with challenging meritocratic ideas, described in sarcastic tones the conclusions he had reached about the characters of rich and poor on the basis of hundreds of encounters with both groups in many countries...
A last trick is to become personal, insulting, rude, as soon as you perceive that your opponent has the upper hand, and that you are going to come off worst. It consists in passing from the subject of dispute, as from a lost game, to...
Plouton (Pluto) [Haides] fell in love with Persephone, and with Zeus' help secretly kidnapped her. Demeter roamed the earth over in search of her, by day and by night with torches. When she learned from the Hermionians that Plouton [Haides] had kidnapped her, enraged at...
Healing a Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda 5 After this[a] there was a Jewish feast,[b] and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is[c] in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate[d] a pool called Bethzatha[e] in Aramaic,[f] which has five covered walkways.[g] 3 A great...
Hobbes held that if we knew in advance the worst that war could do to us, that knowledge would be an effective deterrent. He was writing specifically about civil war, as opposed to international war, because he felt that closeness gives a greater potential to...
Once when I had stayed away for several days and returned bewildered she took me aside and said: "You must not give way to desires which you don't believe in. I know what you desire. You should, however, either be capable of renouncing these desires...
