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• Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

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  Lying, Speech, Figures

  "Life of Themistocles". Book by Plutarch,

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• When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

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  Envy, Ink, Matter

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• So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

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  Matter, Difficult

  Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough (1860). “Greek History: From Themistocles to Alexander”, p.76

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• To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting.

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  Fighting, Giving, Said

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.221

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• The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?

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  Eye, Men, Animal

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• ...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

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  Dolphins, Philosopher, Granted

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.3559, Delphi Classics

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• Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.

  Plutarch

  Men, Thinking, Reflection

  Plutarch (2012). “Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.

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  Father, Taken, Opportunity

  Plutarch (2004). “The Life of Alexander the Great”, p.6, Modern Library

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• The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.

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  Kings, Future, Sweat

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• Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

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  Horse, Men, Weakness

  "Roman Apophthegms". Cicero. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

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  Freedom, Enemy, Conquer

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• Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?

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  Thinking, Numbers, Asking

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.140

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• Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

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  Men, Differences, Bravery

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• Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

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  Courage, Fear, Justice

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• That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.

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  May

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.416

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• For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.

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  Eye, Clouds, Light

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• Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

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  Lamps, Argument, Witness

  "Life of Demosthenes". Book by Plutarch,

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• Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.

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  Fashion, Morning, Doors

  Plutarch (2011). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.528, Bantam

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• If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

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  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules."

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  "Life of Theseus". Reported in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," 10th ed., 1919.

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• The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

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  Needs, Youth, Pleasure

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• A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.

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  Art, Voice, Body

  "Laconic Apothegms".

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• So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

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  Long, Perfect, Political

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.324, 谷月社

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• Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

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  Men, Spokes, Mets

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

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• When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

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  Friendship, Strong, Money

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