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• It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

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  Work, Men, Criticism

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.448

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• We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

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  Life, Nature, Shoes

  "Life of Cato the Censor" by Plutarch, 1st century.

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• Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.

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  Love Is, And Love, Love And Trust

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• Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

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  Understanding, Aging, Increase

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• Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

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  Wise, Adversity, Men

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.1986, Delphi Classics

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• Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

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  Silence, Speech, Seasons

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

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• There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

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  Passion, Character, Power

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• It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

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  Women, Character, Distinction

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• What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

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  Water, Principles, Elements

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• Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.

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  Friends, Real, Rivalry

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

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• It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

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  Thinking, Virtue, Admirer

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• Beauty is the flower of virtue.

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  Beauty, Flower, Virtue

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.3173, Delphi Classics

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• Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.

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  Criminals, Might, Fool

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.211

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• Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

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  Philosophical, Animal, Flesh

  Plutarch (1957). “Plutarch's Moralia: Concerning the face which appears in the orb of the moon. On the principle of cold. Whether fire or water is more useful. Whether land or sea animals are cleverer. Beasts are rational. On the earing of flesh”

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• Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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  Patriotic, Greek, Patriotism

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

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• Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.

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  Men, Mirrors, Infallible

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• The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

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  Food, Army, Order

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• It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

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  Winning, Men, Coward

  Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives - Complete”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

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  Home, Men, Independence

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.479, 谷月社

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• No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

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  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Plutarch (1906). “Essays & Miscellanies...”

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• Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

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  Forgetfulness

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• Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

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  Wise, Fall, Men

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• Either is both, and Both is neither.

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  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2148, Delphi Classics

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• I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.

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  Men, Should, Asks

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

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• Philosophy is an act of living.

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  Life, Philosophy, Live Life

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