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• To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

  Plutarch

  Life, Men, Childhood

  Plutarch (1832). “Lives of the most select and illustrious characters of antiquity”, p.9

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• It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

  Plutarch

  Character, Giving, Personality

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's Corrected from the Greek”, p.345, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

  Plutarch

  Husband, Men, Wife

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• Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

  Plutarch

  Fate, Unexpected, Appearance

  Plutarch (2012). “Greek and Roman Lives”, p.364, Courier Corporation

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• Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

  Plutarch

  Perseverance, Taken, Persistence

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.761, 谷月社

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• Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

  Plutarch

  Extravagance, Poverty, Poor

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• Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Best Friend, Adversity

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• Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

  Plutarch

  Pain, World, Littles

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• The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

  Plutarch

  Strong, Wine, Men

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• They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

  Plutarch

  Men, Luxury, Politics

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.1104, 谷月社

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• Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

  Plutarch

  Wickedness, Misery, Shame

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• The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men, Ease

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.446

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• Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

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  Plato, People, Age

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• Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

  Plutarch

  Skins, Lions, Foxes

  Parallel Lives "Lysander" sec. 7 See Machiavelli 7

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• Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.

  Plutarch

  Hurtful, Riches

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• I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being: who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, perception and with voice. …but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born in to the world to enjoy.

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  Men, Light, Voice

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• Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

  Plutarch

  Food, Dark, Clouds

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• It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

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  Impossible, Silent, Easy

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• Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

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  Men, Vices, Savages

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• Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

  Plutarch

  Cities, Wronged

  Plutarch (1959). “Plutarch's Lives”

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• Words will build no walls.

  Plutarch

  Wall

  Plutarch (1811). “Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greek”, p.125

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• As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.

  Plutarch

  Hurt, Sight, Evil

  Plutarch (1704). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.58

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• Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

  Plutarch

  Fitness, Sweet, Relaxation

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• He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself

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  Reflection, Men, Want

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.955, 谷月社

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• All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

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  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. "Of Superstition",

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