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• Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

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  Talking, Endless, Drunkenness

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

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• Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

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  Encouragement, Children, Mean

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• As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

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  Children, Mind, Instruction

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.8

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• He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

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  War, Special, Firsts

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• We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

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  Happiness, Lying, Men

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.303

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• Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken.
  [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]

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  Death

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• The belly has no ears.

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  Ears, Gluttony, Belly

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• Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

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  Inspirational, Practice, Inspire

  Plutarch (2012). “Greek and Roman Lives”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.

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  Wise, Men, People

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• Come back with your shield - or on it

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  Greek, Sparta, Shields

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• Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

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  Wife, Caesar's Wife, Should

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• The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.

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  Wind, Pilots, Calm

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.162

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• Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.

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  Grief, Evil, Feelings

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• Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.

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  Rain, Fall, Battle

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.71

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• It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.

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  Time, Numbers, Long

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.749, 谷月社

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• Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

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  Merit, Birth, Fine Things

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• So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

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  Friends, Experts, Affection

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

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• Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.

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  Strong, Teaching, Son

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1874). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.190

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• If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

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  Would Be, Ifs

  Plutarch (2016). “Hellenistic Lives: including Alexander the Great”, p.19, Oxford University Press

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• Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).

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  Liars, Lying

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 485-487, 1922.

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• As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.

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  House, Humanity, Temples

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.62

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• Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

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  Moving, Passion, Men

  "Parallel Lives: Demosthenes and Cicero". Book by Plutarch. Section 3,

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• An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

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  Feet, Age, Fool

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

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• Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

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  Anger, Men, Angry Man

  Plutarch (1704). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.56

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• Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

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  Giving, Serious, Bed

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

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