 | John James Ingalls - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...death. The closing words of Socrates to his friends, before he drank the fatal hemlock, were these: " It is now time that we depart, I to die, you to live;...has the better destiny is unknown to all except the gods." The noblest pagan of antiquity had courage, but not faith. John Brown said: " I can trust God... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...discoursing of the doctrine of the immortality of the soul ; his last words to his judges being, " It is now time that we depart — I to die, you to...which has the better destiny is unknown to all, except to the God." How many great men and thinkers have been persecuted in the name of religion ! Bruno was... | |
 | 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...prevent his contemplating steadfastly his next future. When Socrates wag condemned to death he said, "it is now time that we depart ; I to die, you to...has the better destiny is unknown to all except the Gods." But the leper in his ignorance knows better than Socrates, and thinks his death a deliverance... | |
 | 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 922
...mingled in the touching words addressed to his friends : " It is now time that we depart, I to die and you to live ; but which has the better destiny, is unknown to all except the gods." 1 Notwithstanding the beauty of his life, and the sublimity of his maxims, it is singular that... | |
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And, if they are thought to be something, being really nothing, reproach them, as I have reproached you, for not attending to what they ought, and fancying themselves something when they are good for nothing. And, if you do this, both I and my sons shall... 
