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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Character is long-standing habit.

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  Art, Philosophy, Character

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.

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  Beautiful, Giving, Wish

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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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• 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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• There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.

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  Strong, Wine, Men

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• In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

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  Life, Change, Fate

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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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• Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

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  Harmony, Harmony In Music, Discord

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.1187, 谷月社

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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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• Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron.

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  Son, Smell, Aprons

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.203

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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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• When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

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  Inspiration, Important, Oratory

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• A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?"

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  Soldier, Enemy, Said

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

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  Inspiring, Food, Loss

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.587, Delphi Classics

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• Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people, he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?"

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  People, Opinion, Said

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 55 Phocion. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

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  People, Rude, Spades

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• Custom is almost a second nature.

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  Tradition, Customs

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.269

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