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• When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

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  Passion, Rage, Effects

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• The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

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  Men, Discovery, Vices

  Plutarch (2010). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.

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  Should, Benevolence, Humankind

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

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  Wisdom, Men, Politics

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.504, 谷月社

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• Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.

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  Knavery, Doctrine, Knaves

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

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• Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

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  Cities, Wronged

  Plutarch (1959). “Plutarch's Lives”

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• Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

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  Wise, Men, Silence

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• To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.

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  Inspiration, Other Worlds, Egypt

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• A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.

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  Vegetarianism, Teeth, Body

  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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• The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

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  Kings, Crowns, Sometimes

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• Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

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  Wickedness, Miserable, Wonderful

  Plutarch (1951). “Selected Lives and Essays”

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• Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

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  Enemy, Quality, Excellent

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• When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

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  Wise, Men, Sound

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• Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

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  Tree, Speech, Fruit

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 56 Phocion. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

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  Courage, Challenges, Enemy

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.183

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• Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.

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  Argument, Force, Thousand

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.334

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• There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

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  Men, Political, Politics

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.478, 谷月社

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• Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.

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  Selfish, Grief, Advantage

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• Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.

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  Horse, Children, Rooms

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.395

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• If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

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  Education, Exercise, Imperfect

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.5

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• A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.

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  Determination, Mind, Noble

  Plutarch (2012). “Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax

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  Philosophical, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".

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  Kings, Inspiration, Water

  Pleasure not attainable according to Epicurus, 11. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.

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  Sea, Land, Secret

  Plutarch (1844). “Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch”, p.182

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• Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.

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  Men, Heard, Nightingales

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.99, Modern Library

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