Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1898 - 408 pages |
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Page 15
... exiled from Sparta for embezzling the public money . To be able to govern the temper also argues a wise man . For Socrates , when a very impudent and disgusting young fellow kicked him on one occasion , seeing all the rest of his class ...
... exiled from Sparta for embezzling the public money . To be able to govern the temper also argues a wise man . For Socrates , when a very impudent and disgusting young fellow kicked him on one occasion , seeing all the rest of his class ...
Page 95
... exile and old age if their character is a contented and mild one . § II . For as perfumes make threadbare coats and rags to smell sweet , while the body of Anchises sent forth a fetid 1 A line from " Odyssey , " xv . 323 , وو 2 “ Malim ...
... exile and old age if their character is a contented and mild one . § II . For as perfumes make threadbare coats and rags to smell sweet , while the body of Anchises sent forth a fetid 1 A line from " Odyssey , " xv . 323 , وو 2 “ Malim ...
Page 136
... exile of Aristides , nor the prison of Anaxagoras , nor the poverty of Socrates , nor the condemnation of Phocion , but think virtue worthy our love even under such trials , and join her , ever chanting that line of Euripides , " Unto ...
... exile of Aristides , nor the prison of Anaxagoras , nor the poverty of Socrates , nor the condemnation of Phocion , but think virtue worthy our love even under such trials , and join her , ever chanting that line of Euripides , " Unto ...
Page 191
... exile from his native country , and living a humble and obscure life at Thebes , that he was not pleased to see Crates approaching , for he expected to receive from him cynical outspokenness and harsh language . But as Crates talked ...
... exile from his native country , and living a humble and obscure life at Thebes , that he was not pleased to see Crates approaching , for he expected to receive from him cynical outspokenness and harsh language . But as Crates talked ...
Page 234
... exile the second time . In such a case most of all ought we to curtail talkativeness , by following 1 Proverb of cross purposes . 2 Reading paolai with Dübner . 3 Catullus calls him " tumidus , " i.e. long - winded , 95 , 10. See also ...
... exile the second time . In such a case most of all ought we to curtail talkativeness , by following 1 Proverb of cross purposes . 2 Reading paolai with Dübner . 3 Catullus calls him " tumidus , " i.e. long - winded , 95 , 10. See also ...
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