Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Children

    group · 8 works · 9 mentions · 10 anchored passages

    children · a boy · daughters · infant · infants · little children · sons · the child

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    MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

    Descendants who benefit from the honors and livelihood gained by fit men.

    get great glory and gain very high honours, and for this cause live henceforth a pleasanter and better life, and leave to their children better means of winning a livelihood.
    chapter 3
    Certainly not.
    chapter 4
    In that case then, they ought not to have children?
    chapter 4

    Nicomachean EthicsClassical · Greek

    Young persons used as an analogy for undisciplined desire that must be governed by reason or authority.

    For children, like profligates, live at the prompting of desire;
    chapter 3
    The word Profligacy or wantonness we also apply to the naughtiness of children, which has some resemblance to the licentiousness of adults.
    chapter 3
    Hence our indulgences should be moderate and few, and never opposed to principle— this is what we mean by well-disciplined and chastened —;
    chapter 3

    On Moral EndsHellenistic · Latin

    Children, treated throughout the passage as natural evidence for the philosopher's claims about innate dispositions toward action, knowledge, and virtue.

    But these things are in children;
    book 5
    This is easy to discern in the first little years of children.
    book 5
    Children show it, in whom, as in mirrors, nature is discerned.
    book 5

    EpigramsClassical · Greek

    Offspring described as an adornment or honor for a man.

    Children are a man’s crown, towers of a city;
    epigrams

    Hymn 30 to EarthClassical · Greek

    The offspring whose joy and vitality display the blessing Earth gives to households.

    Through you, O queen, men are blessed in their children and blessed in their harvests, and to you it belongs to give means of life to mortal men and to take it away.
    hymn 30 to earth

    To NicoclesClassical · Greek

    Children are the king's descendants, for whom a good name matters more than riches and whose imagined instruction should guide his own conduct.

    Whatever advice you would give to your children, consent to follow it yourself.
    to nicocles
    Consider it more important to leave to your children a good name than great riches;
    to nicocles

    Natural Law, or the Science of Justice19th Century · English

    Used as an illustrative example of natural, intuitive knowledge of justice acquired before formal learning.

    Children learn the fundamental principles of natural law at a very early age.
    chapter 4

    On the Steadfastness of the Wise ManImperial · Latin

    Human children, used throughout as an extended analogy for the folly and harmlessness of those who might insult the wise man.

    therefore the wise man cannot be harmed.
    on the steadfastness of the wise man
    Yonder rich men have lost their patrimonies;
    on the steadfastness of the wise man
    therefore injury cannot be done to the wise man.
    on the steadfastness of the wise man