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• The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

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  Friends, Pain, True Friend

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

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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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• Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

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  Inspiring, Sports, Perseverance

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1870). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.6, Boston : Little, Brown

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• If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

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  Kings, Prayer, Wall

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• Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

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  Wisdom, Gold, Wealth

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

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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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• The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.

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  Mind, Add, Dignity

  Plutarch (1803). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.121

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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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• Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

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  Wise, Learning, Men

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.461, 谷月社

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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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• 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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• Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

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  Forgetfulness

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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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• 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.

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  Cities, Wronged

  Plutarch (1959). “Plutarch's Lives”

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

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  Fate, Unexpected, Appearance

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

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

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Adversity

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

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  Extravagance, Poverty, Poor

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

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  Life, Men, Childhood

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

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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.

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  Wise, Men, Ease

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

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

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  Wickedness, Misery, Shame

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

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  Hurtful, Riches

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