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• Painting is silent poetry.

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  Art, Painting, Silent

  Plutarch, John J. Keaney, Robert Lamberton (1996). “Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer”, p.307, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Custom is almost a second nature.

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  Tradition, Customs

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.269

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• When the candles are out all women are fair.

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  Fairs, Candle

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "Conjugal Precepts",

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• What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

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  Death, Suffering, Do Not Fear

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• For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being centred upon the few, the generality were poor and miserable. Honourable pursuits, for which there was no longer leisure, were neglected; the state was filled with sordid business, and with hatred and envy of the rich.

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  Men, Hands, Envy

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.450, Modern Library

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• And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".

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  Kings, Inspiration, Water

  Pleasure not attainable according to Epicurus, 11. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

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  Men, People, Ruins

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• Character is long-standing habit.

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  Art, Philosophy, Character

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• If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.

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  Disappointment, Light, Break Off

  Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.64

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• As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.

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  Beautiful, Giving, Wish

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• There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.

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  Strong, Wine, Men

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• Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

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  Balance, Contentment, Obscurity

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• The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

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  Kings, Crowns, Sometimes

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• Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

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  Friendship, Heart, Men

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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• The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

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  May, Gains, Strange

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• In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

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  Life, Change, Fate

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• Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.

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  Men, Rights, House

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• If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

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  Education, Exercise, Imperfect

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.5

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• While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.

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  Kings, Army, Greek

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• Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?

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  Men, Good Man, Battle

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Lives and Writings”

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• Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.

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  Men, Wife, Sparta

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• It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

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  Inspiring, Food, Loss

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.587, Delphi Classics

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• For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

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  Wise, Men, Opinion

  Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.352

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• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.

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  Life, Pain, Grief

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• Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.

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  Men, Land, Able

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.3106, Delphi Classics

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