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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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• Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

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  Might, Wells, Breaths

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.27

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• One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.

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  Men, People, Asia

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.69

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• He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.

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  Traitor, Hated, Treason

  Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne (1873). “Plutarch's Lives Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Historical and Critical, and a Life of Plutarch”, p.74

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• To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.

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  Mean, Son, Birth

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2166, Delphi Classics

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• After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered.

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  Saws, Firsts, Assault

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.248

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• What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

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  Men, Elephants, Solemnity

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Miscellanies and Essays”

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• The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

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  Wise, Politics, Matter

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.146, 谷月社

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• I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.

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  Thinking, Shoes, Feet

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.385

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• The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

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  Mountain, Made, Mice

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.814, 谷月社

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• Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.

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  Greatness, Giving, Mind

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.64, Modern Library

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• Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.

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  Sea, Wealth, Enough

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

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• I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.

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  Men, People, Fickle

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

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• A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line.

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  Warrior, Sake, Lines

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• When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'

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  Men, Speak, Notorious

  "Laconic Apophthegms". Reported in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," 10th ed., 1919.

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• It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

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  Family, Ancestry, Glory

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.12

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• By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?

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  Character, Mean, Men

  Plutarch (2012). “Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

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• We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.

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  Friends, Pain, Medicine

  Plutarch (1888). “Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto”

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• Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

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  Art, Poetry, Greek

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• Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"

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  Leisure, Should, Elders

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". Book by Plutarch. "32 Dionysius". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

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  Rising, Pompey, Sun

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.133, Modern Library

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• Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set up a democracy in your own house."

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  Beautiful, Fashion, Hair

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 57 Lycurgus. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.

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  Mouths, Speech, Pebbles

  "Parallel Lives". "Life of Demosthenes" by Plutarch,

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• A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic."

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  Pulse, Physicians, Use

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

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• Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

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  Pain, Smart, Confusion

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