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• What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

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  Nice, Fall, Maturity

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• Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

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  Soldier, Shut Up, Miserable

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• Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

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  Education, Practice, Blind

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• Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.

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  Wonder, Happens, Ifs

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.3109, Delphi Classics

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• But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.

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  Country, Principles, Unjust

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's Corrected from the Greek”, p.347, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

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  Integrity, Men, Noble Man

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• It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

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  Wise, Silence, Speak

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "The Education of Children",

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• There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, "Either is both, and Both is neither.

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  Brother, Silly, Two

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.195

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• The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.

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  Men, Soul, Together

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2612, Delphi Classics

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• Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

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  Memories, May, Painful

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2910, Delphi Classics

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• To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

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  Courage, Men, Evil

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 166), 1895.

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• Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.

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  Pain, Grief, Medical

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• Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

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  Shadow, Action, Said

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.22

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• A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

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  Friends, Needs, Should

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

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• Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

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  Music, Medicine, Disease

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• The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.

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  Heart, Hearing, Consideration

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• For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

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  Anger, Fire, Wrath

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2636, Delphi Classics

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• Painting is silent poetry.

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  Art, Painting, Silent

  Plutarch, John J. Keaney, Robert Lamberton (1996). “Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer”, p.307, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.

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  Kindness, One Day, News

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.194

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• The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

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  Elude, Instant, Offers

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• Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground.

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  Men, Law, Land

  Plutarch (1861). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's”, p.513

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• Though others before him had triumphed three times, Pompeius, by having gained his first triumph over Libya, his second over Europe, and this the last over Asia, seemed in a manner to have brought the whole world into his three triumphs.

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  Europe, Triumph, Three

  Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives -”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

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  Summer, Winter, Land

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• Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.

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  Work, Giving, Ease

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.213, 谷月社

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• Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

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  Life, Men, Practice

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.591, 谷月社

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