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Thus while desire goes before pleasure, satisfaction follows after, and while fear goes before pain, after pain comes sorrow.
Thus while desire goes before pleasure, satisfaction follows after, and while fear goes before pain, after pain comes sorrow.
For while Reason is the guide of the virtues it is master of the passions.
For the temperate mind is able, as I said, to win the victory over the passions, modifying some, while crushing others absolutely.
And yet, were our Law, as you suggest, not truly divine, while we vainly believed it to be divine, not even so would it be right for us to destroy our reputation for piety.
Shame were it if we should live on a little longer, during that little being mocked of all men for cowardice, and while despised by the tyrant as unmanly should fail to defend the Divine Law unto the death. 13 Therefore, O sons of Abraham, do ye die nobly for righteousness' sake; but as for you, O minions of the tyrant, why pause ye in your work?'
Thou wouldst terrify us with thy threats of death under torture, as if a little while ago thou hadst learned nothing from Eleazar.
But while all were wondering at his constancy of soul, the guards brought forward the second in age of the. sons, and grappling him with sharp-clawed hands of iron they fastened him to the engines and the catapult.
And while thus appealing to him he sent for the boy's mother, in order that in her sorrow for the loss of so many sons she might urge the survivor to obey and be saved.
But while they have fulfilled their righteousness towards God in their noble deaths, thou shalt miserably cry "Woe is met" for thy unjust slaying of the champions of virtue.'
How many and how great were the tortures with which the mother was tormented while her sons were being tortured with torments of rack and fire!
For it would be shameful if, while this aged man endured the agony for religion's sake, you that are young men shrank before the pain.
Who, while he was yet with us, taught you the Law and the prophets. He read to us of Abel who was slain by Cain, and of Isaac who was offered as a burnt-offering, and of Joseph in the prison.
And made me stand on my feet in the height of the Lord, before His perfection and His glory, while I was praising Him by the composition of His songs.
While I praised amongst the praising ones, and great was I amongst the mighty ones.