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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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• He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

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  Thinking, Likes, Favour

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.325, 谷月社

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• ... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.

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  Math, Oil, Fire

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• The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

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  May, Gains, Strange

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• Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.

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  Men, Land, Able

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.3106, Delphi Classics

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• Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.

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  Wisdom, Ambition, Mean

  Plutarch, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough (2005). “Greek and Roman Lives”, p.376, Courier Corporation

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• While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.

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  Kings, Army, Greek

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• Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.

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  Men, Wife, Sparta

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• Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.

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  Character, Men, Self

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• Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

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  Friendship, Heart, Men

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

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• Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?

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  Men, Good Man, Battle

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Lives and Writings”

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• I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

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  Veils, Raised, Mortals

  Plutarch (1889). “Plutarch's Morals: Theosophical Essays”

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• For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

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  Wise, Men, Opinion

  Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.352

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• I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.

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  Coward, World, Dare

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.65

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• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.

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  Life, Pain, Grief

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• The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

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  Evil, Suffering, Firsts

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• He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good

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  Pain, Mean, Occupation

  Plutarch (1861). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's”, p.319

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• Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

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  Men, Doe, Injustice

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

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• Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

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  Curiosity, Wish, May

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

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• A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

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  Warrior, Son, Sparta

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• Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

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  Shoes, Gout, Tiaras

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• As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it.

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  Wife, Done, Bed

  Plutarch (1872). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.606

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• When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.

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  Men, Space, Goal

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.29

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• Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill; to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.

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  Anger, Men, Self

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• A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare . . . There is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing even as it is; so they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare.

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  Sweet, Medicine, Fire

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