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• It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

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  Character, Giving, Flattery

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• Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.

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  Grief, Evil, Feelings

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• Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive."

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  Dog, Kings, Giving

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 45 Antigonus I. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

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  Children, Study, Whipping

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.20

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• The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.

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  Wind, Pilots, Calm

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.162

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• The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?

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  Fighting, Enemy, Ships

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.385, 谷月社

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• The great god Pan is dead.

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  Plutarch (2017). “Why the Ancient Oracles disappeared?”, p.33, Philaletheians UK

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• When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.

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  Kings, Two, Earth

  Plutarch (1881). “Essays”

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• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

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  Death, Men, Hymns

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• Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.

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  Cities, Gold, May

  Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives - Complete”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'

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  Enemy, Pompey, Today

  "The Life of Pompey". Book by Plutarch,

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• When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

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  Anger, Battle, Resistance

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.37

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• Come back with your shield - or on it

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  Greek, Sparta, Shields

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• Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

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  Real, Excellence, Goodness

  Plutarch (2012). “Greek and Roman Lives”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

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  Lamps, Argument, Scoffing

  "Life of Demosthenes". Book by Plutarch. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

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  Wife, Caesar's Wife, Should

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• They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in view, something which leaves off as soon as that end is reached. It is not a public chore, to be got over with. It is a way of life. It is the life of a domesticated political and social creature who is born with a love for public life, with a desire for honor, with a feeling for his fellows; and it lasts as long as need be.

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  Love, Military, Ocean

  Attributed in "The Great Quotations" edited by George Seldes, (p. 570), 1966.

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• Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.

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  Beautiful, Men, Speech

  Plutarch (2012). “Greek and Roman Lives”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

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  Disease, Usual, Neighbor

  Plutarch (1881). “Plutarch's Lives”

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• Such power I gave the people as might do,
  Abridged not what they had, now lavished new,
  Those that were great in wealth and high in place
  My counsel likewise kept from all disgrace.
  Before them both I held my shield of might,
  And let not either touch the other's right.

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  People, Might, Shields

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.119, 谷月社

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• For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

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  Mean, Understanding, Meanings Of Words

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.1439, Delphi Classics

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• After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws.

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  Fighting, Eagles, Advice

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.246

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• Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?

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  Wind, Sea, Oil

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.3441, Delphi Classics

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• Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

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  Men, Evil, Age

  Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.223

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• The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are the substantial part of the world; like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.

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  Change, Science, Animal

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