Dream of Scipio and Stoic Paradoxes

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It has been passed down in memory that this man was a learned and wise man. But nevertheless, I ask you, since we are contending among ourselves with words and not with fists, what is better to be sought concerning goods? What learned men, or laborers, or what most learned men have felt? Especially since this opinion can be found to be not only truer, but also more useful for human life. For what force is there that might keep men away from all impropriety more than if they felt that there is no difference in offenses? That it is the same to commit a sin if hands are laid upon private individuals as if they are laid upon magistrates, and that in whatever house one brings lust, the crime of desire is the same. Therefore, does it matter not at all? For someone says this: whether one kills a father or a servant, if you pose those things bare, it is not easy to judge what they are. To deprive a father of life, if it is a crime in itself The Saguntines, in their opinion regarding the son in relation to the father after incredible flows, in which matter it is a damage in itself to the republic and in itself a crime. the Saguntines, who preferred that their parents should perish as children rather than live as slaves, were parricides. Therefore, life can sometimes be taken from a parent without crime, but from a servant, it often cannot be taken without injury. Therefore, this distinguishes the cause, not nature. When it moves toward one, it becomes more prone. If it is joined to both, it is necessary that they become equal. When it moves toward one, it becomes more prone. If it is joined to both, it is necessary that they become equal. However, this much matters: that in killing a servant, if it is done with injury, it is a sin once; in violating a father's life, many things are sinned against. He is violated who begot, he who nourished, he who educated, he who placed one in a home and house, and in the republic. He excels in the multitude of sins, and therefore is worthy of a greater penalty. But we must look not at what the penalty is for each sin in life, but how much is permitted to each. Whatever is not proper, we must think to be a crime; whatever is not permitted, we must think to be a wickedness original: "nefas", even in the smallest things. If indeed we cannot fashion the measure of things, we can hold the measure of our minds. If a dancer has moved a little outside the rhythm, or if a syllable in a verse is pronounced shorter or longer, he is hissed at, he is exploded original: "exploditur". Reprehension. Similitude is drunk, if it is in a poem, I taste.