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• If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

  Plutarch

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

  Plutarch

  Lamps, Argument, Witness

  "Life of Demosthenes". Book by Plutarch,

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• When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

  Plutarch

  Inspiration, Important, Oratory

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• Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.

  Plutarch

  Fashion, Morning, Doors

  Plutarch (2011). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.528, Bantam

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• For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.

  Plutarch

  Eye, Clouds, Light

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• From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules."

  Plutarch

  "Life of Theseus". Reported in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," 10th ed., 1919.

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• A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.

  Plutarch

  Art, Voice, Body

  "Laconic Apothegms".

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• So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

  Plutarch

  Long, Perfect, Political

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.324, 谷月社

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• Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?

  Plutarch

  Thinking, Numbers, Asking

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.140

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• Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

  Plutarch

  Talking, Endless, Drunkenness

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

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• Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

  Plutarch

  Men, Differences, Bravery

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• As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

  Plutarch

  Children, Mind, Instruction

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.8

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• We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

  Plutarch

  Happiness, Lying, Men

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.303

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• He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

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  Thinking, Likes, Favour

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.325, 谷月社

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• Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken.
  [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]

  Plutarch

  Death

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• For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.

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  Wise, Men, People

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• A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

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  Warrior, Son, Sparta

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• Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

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  Horse, Men, Weakness

  "Roman Apophthegms". Cicero. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.

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  Rain, Fall, Battle

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.71

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• A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?"

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  Soldier, Enemy, Said

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

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  Merit, Birth, Fine Things

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• Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.

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  Strong, Teaching, Son

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1874). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.190

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• It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.

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  Time, Numbers, Long

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.749, 谷月社

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• So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

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  Friends, Experts, Affection

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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• Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Practice, Inspire

  Plutarch (2012). “Greek and Roman Lives”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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