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• The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

  Plutarch

  Mountain, Made, Mice

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.814, 谷月社

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• Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.

  Plutarch

  Greatness, Giving, Mind

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.64, Modern Library

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• Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.

  Plutarch

  Sea, Wealth, Enough

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

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• I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.

  Plutarch

  Men, People, Fickle

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

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• These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

  Plutarch

  People, Rude, Spades

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• When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'

  Plutarch

  Men, Speak, Notorious

  "Laconic Apophthegms". Reported in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," 10th ed., 1919.

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• A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line.

  Plutarch

  Warrior, Sake, Lines

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• When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.

  Plutarch

  Running, Grief, Eye

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• It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

  Plutarch

  Family, Ancestry, Glory

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.12

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• By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?

  Plutarch

  Character, Mean, Men

  Plutarch (2012). “Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

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• We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.

  Plutarch

  Friends, Pain, Medicine

  Plutarch (1888). “Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto”

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• Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

  Plutarch

  Art, Poetry, Greek

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• Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"

  Plutarch

  Leisure, Should, Elders

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". Book by Plutarch. "32 Dionysius". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

  Plutarch

  Rising, Pompey, Sun

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.133, Modern Library

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• He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

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  War, Special, Firsts

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• Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set up a democracy in your own house."

  Plutarch

  Beautiful, Fashion, Hair

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 57 Lycurgus. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.

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  Mouths, Speech, Pebbles

  "Parallel Lives". "Life of Demosthenes" by Plutarch,

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• 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."

  Plutarch

  Pulse, Physicians, Use

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

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• Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

  Plutarch

  Pain, Smart, Confusion

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• Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.

  Plutarch

  Done, May, Despise

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• The belly has no ears.

  Plutarch

  Ears, Gluttony, Belly

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• There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

  Plutarch

  Justice, Prejudice, Debt

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2801, Delphi Classics

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• Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.

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  Weight, Earth, Might

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

  Plutarch

  Wisdom, Justice, Politics

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.629, Modern Library

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• Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.

  Plutarch

  Military, Ocean, Political

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