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• We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

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  Life, Nature, Shoes

  "Life of Cato the Censor" by Plutarch, 1st century.

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• Philosophy is the art of living.

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  Art, Philosophy, Art Of Living

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• All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

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  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. "Of Superstition",

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• It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

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  Women, Character, Distinction

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• To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

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  Life, Men, Childhood

  Plutarch (1832). “Lives of the most select and illustrious characters of antiquity”, p.9

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• Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

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  Teacher, Nature, Men

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• Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

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  Lying, Men, Vices

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• I see the cure is not worth the pain.

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  Pain, Cures

  Plutarch (1822). “Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch”, p.245

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• Either is both, and Both is neither.

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  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2148, Delphi Classics

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• Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

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  Food, Dark, Clouds

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• The wildest colts make the best horses.

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  Horse, Children, Teaching

  Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne (1801). “Plutarch's Lives,: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch”, p.283

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• Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.

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  Friends, Real, Rivalry

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

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• He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.

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  Circumstances, Wells

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• Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses."

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  Rage, Said, Athenians

  "Life of Phocion". Book by Plutarch. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

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  God, Needs, Want

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.280, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

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  Pain, World, Littles

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• Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.

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  Love Is, And Love, Love And Trust

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• Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

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  Fitness, Sweet, Relaxation

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• Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

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  Fate, Unexpected, Appearance

  Plutarch (2012). “Greek and Roman Lives”, p.364, Courier Corporation

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• They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

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  Men, Luxury, Politics

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.1104, 谷月社

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• It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

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  Able, Made, Disgrace

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

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• Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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  Patriotic, Greek, Patriotism

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

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• It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

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  Character, Giving, Personality

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's Corrected from the Greek”, p.345, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

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  Perseverance, Taken, Persistence

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.761, 谷月社

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• The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

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  Atheist, Believe, Men

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