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

[162] Traité de morale, III., 2.

[163] The theory of inadmissible sanctity consisted in maintaining that man, having reached a state of sanctity, could never again, whatever he might do, fall from it.

[164] The Dignity of Sciences, VII., iii.

[165] Essays on the Human Understanding, II., xxi.

[166] Epictetus, II., xxiii. (T. W. Higginson’s transl.).

[167] De Officiis, I., xxx.

[168] The greatest tragic actor at Rome, and a contemporary of Roscius, the greatest comic actor.—Translator.

[169] De Officiis, I., xxxi.

[170] Memorabilia of Socrates, IV., iv.

[171] Seneca, on Anger, III., 38. To tell the truth, Seneca forgave himself sometimes too easily perhaps, as, for example, on the day when he defended the murder of Agrippina; we are often too much disposed to imitate him.