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• The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

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  Strong, Wine, Men

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• Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.

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  Sound, Praise

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough (1905). “Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corr. and rev. by William Goodwin, with an introd. by Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• Words will build no walls.

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  Wall

  Plutarch (1811). “Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greek”, p.125

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• A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."

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  Silence, Would Be, Barbers

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 33 Archelaus. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself

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  Reflection, Men, Want

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.955, 谷月社

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• It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

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  Impossible, Silent, Easy

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• He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

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  Opinion, Should, Carthage

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• It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.

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  Writing, Character, Battle

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• What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

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  Death, Suffering, Do Not Fear

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• Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.

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  Character, Men, Giving

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• For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

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  Men, Roots, Heaven

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• For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being centred upon the few, the generality were poor and miserable. Honourable pursuits, for which there was no longer leisure, were neglected; the state was filled with sordid business, and with hatred and envy of the rich.

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  Men, Hands, Envy

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.450, Modern Library

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• Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

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  Men, Vices, Savages

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• As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.

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  Hurt, Sight, Evil

  Plutarch (1704). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.58

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• Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.

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  Plato, Rivers, Gold

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's lives”, p.59

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• As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."

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  Men, Mind, Genius

  Platonic Questions, I. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.

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  Disappointment, Light, Break Off

  Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.64

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• The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

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  Kindness, Philosophical, Animal

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• But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

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  Life, Animal, Light

  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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• For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

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  Inspirational, Mind, Needs

  Plutarch (2006). “Essays”, p.70, Penguin UK

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• Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

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  Plato, People, Age

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• Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me.

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  Dog, Cutting, Tails

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

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• The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

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  Men, People, Ruins

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• Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only".

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  Wife, Said, Very Happy

  "On the Tranquillity of the Mind". Book by Plutarch. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.

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  Men, Rights, House

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