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• Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.

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  Enemy, Cowardice, Despise

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

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• The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are the substantial part of the world; like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.

  Plutarch

  Change, Science, Animal

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• I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.

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  Veils, Mortals

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.72

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• That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far.

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  News, Ill, Proverbial

  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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• Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me.

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  Home, Doors, Athens

  Plutarch (1861). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's”, p.172

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• I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.

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  Men, Years, Medicine

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• When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

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  Oratory, Firsts, Action

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.3309, Delphi Classics

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• What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?

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  Eating, Dine, Knows

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• Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.

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  Horse, Kings, Eye

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.21

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• Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?" Antagoras replied, "Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?

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  Kings, Army, Thinking

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.204

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• Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, "She can choose best," and so took both away with him.

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  Daughter, Two, Gowns

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1870). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.425, Boston : Little, Brown

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• It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

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  Tasks, Citizens, Ears

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.460, 谷月社

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• Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.

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  Water, Firsts, Dread

  "Symposiacs". Book by Plutarch, book VIII. Question IX. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts

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  Mean, Men, Hands

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• We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.

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  Book, Latter, Aim

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• Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

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  War, Gale, Tempest

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• But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to stop the army, and not to neglect but maintain the Roman cause, now in extreme danger. The prayer was no sooner made, than shame and respect for their king checked many; the fears of the fugitives changed suddenly into confidence.

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  Kings, Prayer, Army

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.40, 谷月社

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