"I love you because
You're a sweet little fool!"
I fear to love you, Sweet, because
Love's the ambassador of loss.
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause is stronger than all the hosts of Error.
To set the cause above renown,
To love the game above the prize.
There are worser ills to face
Than foemen in the fray;
And many a man has fought because--
He feared to run away.
I once admitted--to my shame--
That football was a brutal game.
Because She hates it.
Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
For twelve honest men have decided the cause,
Who are judges alike of the facts and the laws.
In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong.
No one should be judge in his own cause.
Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part which is rough.
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.
When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue."
A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic."
And when the physician said, "Sir, you are an old man," "That happens," replied Pausanias, "because you never were my doctor."
Why does pouring oil on the sea make it clear and calm? Is it for that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?
In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.
The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.
It is certain because it is impossible.
Thales said there was no difference between life and death. "Why, then," said some one to him, "do not you die?" "Because," said he, "it does make no difference."
Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,--not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place."
"Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down."
But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.