 For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace; the true disgrace...  Historical Survey of Pre-Christian Education - Page 200by Simon Somerville Laurie - 1915 - 411 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Anna Garlin Spencer - Families - 1923 - 338 pages
...upon the transgressor the reprobation of general sentiment. "We are lovers of the beautiful, though simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. An Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because he takes care of his own household, and even... | |
 | Books - 1881 - 534 pages
...fidelity, force, and beauty of the translation : Our city is equally admirable in peace and war. For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our...mind without loss of manliness. Wealth we employ, not only for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1881 - 742 pages
...allow themselves to rest ; and thus too our city is equally admirable in peace and in war. For 40. we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our...cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. Wealth vated by we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there { is a real use for it. To avow poverty... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1881 - 758 pages
...allow themselves to rest ; and thus too our city is equally admirable in peace and in war. For 40. we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and We are we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. Wealth vated by wejernpjoy^npt for talk and ostentation,... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...never allow themselves to rest ; and thus too, our city is equally admirable in peace and in war. For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our...ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace ; the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it. An Athenian... | |
 | William Pittenger - Oratory - 1883 - 290 pages
...never allow themselves to rest ; and thus too our city is equally admirable in peace and in war. For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our...ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace; the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it. An Athenian... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1883 - 732 pages
...allow themselves to rest ; and thus too our city is equally admirable in peace and in war. For 40. we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and ^ are «?* ' » ' enervated by we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. Wealth ^''ariio^ib... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Greek literature - 1884 - 348 pages
...never allow themselves to rest ; and thus, too, our city is equally admirable in peace and in war. For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our...ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace : the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it. An Athenian... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes - 1885 - 612 pages
...with a courage which is gained by habit and not enforced by law, are we not greatly the gainers? " We are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our...ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace ; the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it. An Athenian... | |
 | George Park Fisher - World history - 1885 - 810 pages
...who never allow themselves to rest And thus, too, our city is equally admirable in peace and war; for we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our...employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace: the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid... | |
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