Elements of Morals / With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State

by Paul Janet

[123] This idea of Aristotle may be questioned; for, in a sudden peril, one may be sustained by a natural impulse, and the feeling of self-defense, whilst anticipated peril allows all the impressions of fear to grow: it requires, therefore, a greater effort to overcome them.

[124] De Officiis, I., xxiii.

[125] See Xenophon’s Memorabilia of Socrates, I., i.

[126] Discours de la Méthode, part III.

[127] The Works of Epictetus. T. W. Higginson’s translation, ch. vi., p. 21.

[128] The Works of Epictetus. T. W. Higginson’s translation, ch. xv., page 139.

[129] Latin, gyrus, the ring in which colts are driven round by horse-breakers.

[130] Cicero, De Officiis, I., xxvi.

[131] Plato’s Republic, I., iv.: A man deserves to be called courageous when that part of his soul in which anger resides obeys the commands of reason.

[132] Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, R. W. Browne’s transl., IV., v.