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• Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.

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  Soul, Looks, Noble

  "Plutarch's Lives in Eight Volumes".

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• Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.

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  Men, Mirrors, Infallible

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• What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

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  Home, Men, Independence

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.479, 谷月社

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• It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

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  Usual, Envious, Consolation

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• Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

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  Wickedness, Misery, Shame

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• Beauty is the flower of virtue.

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  Beauty, Flower, Virtue

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.3173, Delphi Classics

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• Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.

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  Criminals, Might, Fool

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.211

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• I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.

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  Men, Should, Asks

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

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• Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

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  Forgetfulness

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• Philosophy is an act of living.

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  Life, Philosophy, Live Life

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• The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

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  Food, Army, Order

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• Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

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  Balance, Contentment, Obscurity

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• It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

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  Winning, Men, Coward

  Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives - Complete”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Adversity

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• Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

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  Philosophical, Animal, Flesh

  Plutarch (1957). “Plutarch's Moralia: Concerning the face which appears in the orb of the moon. On the principle of cold. Whether fire or water is more useful. Whether land or sea animals are cleverer. Beasts are rational. On the earing of flesh”

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• Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

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  Husband, Men, Wife

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• When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

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  Struggle, Men, He Man

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• Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

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  Wise, Fall, Men

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• When the candles are out all women are fair.

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  Fairs, Candle

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "Conjugal Precepts",

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• Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

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  Envy, Pleasure, Advantage

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• Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

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  Extravagance, Poverty, Poor

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• It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

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  Art, Doe, Succeed

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• The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

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  Wise, Men, Ease

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.446

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• What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

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  Water, Principles, Elements

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• In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

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  Character, Mind, States

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

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