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• Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

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  Music, Medicine, Disease

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• Though others before him had triumphed three times, Pompeius, by having gained his first triumph over Libya, his second over Europe, and this the last over Asia, seemed in a manner to have brought the whole world into his three triumphs.

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  Europe, Triumph, Three

  Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives -”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."

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  Kings, Enemy, Said

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 58 Agis. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.

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  Quality, Benefits, Lessons

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.292, 谷月社

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• Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

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  Book, Delight, Speak

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• A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

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  Friends, Needs, Should

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

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• Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

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  Shadow, Action, Said

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.22

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• Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

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  Wisdom, Men, Politics

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.504, 谷月社

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• Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.

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  Work, Giving, Ease

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.213, 谷月社

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• For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

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  Inspirational, Mind, Needs

  Plutarch (2006). “Essays”, p.70, Penguin UK

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• But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.

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  Country, Principles, Unjust

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's Corrected from the Greek”, p.347, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.

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  Knavery, Doctrine, Knaves

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.72

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• Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

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  Memories, Gone, Wonder

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

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• The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

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  Elude, Instant, Offers

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• It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

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  God, Belief, Opinion

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• Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

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  Doe, Needs, Pennies

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• He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.

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  Sea, Land, Secret

  Plutarch (1844). “Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch”, p.182

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• As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.

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  Lying, Desert, World

  Parallel Lives "Aemilius Paulus" sec. 5

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• Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

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  Wisdom, Justice, Politics

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.748, 谷月社

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• Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground.

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  Men, Law, Land

  Plutarch (1861). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's”, p.513

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• Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion.

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  Wife, Trials, Cases

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• A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

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  Believe, Long, Sparta

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.433

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• Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.

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  Plato, Sacrifice, Grace

  "Life of Marius", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 689, 1922.

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• Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

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  Mother, Children, Heart

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• Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

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  Games, Achilles, Said

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.208

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