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• If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax

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  Philosophical, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

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  Men, Discovery, Vices

  Plutarch (2010). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

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  Nice, Fall, Maturity

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• Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

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  Wise, Men, Silence

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• Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.

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  Wonder, Happens, Ifs

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.3109, Delphi Classics

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• To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.

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  Inspiration, Other Worlds, Egypt

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• For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

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  Anger, Fire, Wrath

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2636, Delphi Classics

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• Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

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  Life, Men, Practice

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.591, 谷月社

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• Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.

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  Horse, Children, Rooms

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.395

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• Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

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  Memories, May, Painful

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2910, Delphi Classics

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• The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.

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  Men, Soul, Together

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2612, Delphi Classics

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• It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

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  Integrity, Men, Noble Man

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• Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

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  Tree, Speech, Fruit

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 56 Phocion. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.

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  Sound, Praise

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough (1905). “Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corr. and rev. by William Goodwin, with an introd. by Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

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  Courage, Men, Evil

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 166), 1895.

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• There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

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  Men, Political, Politics

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.478, 谷月社

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• When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

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  Wise, Men, Sound

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• Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

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  Courage, Challenges, Enemy

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.183

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• It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

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  Wise, Silence, Speak

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "The Education of Children",

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• Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.

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  Men, Heard, Nightingales

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.99, Modern Library

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• Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.

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  Argument, Force, Thousand

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.334

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• When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.

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  Kindness, One Day, News

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.194

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• This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center."

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  Believe, Moving, Moon

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• Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.

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  Pain, Grief, Medical

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• Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

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  Summer, Winter, Land

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