Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... Plato , and of all who have won undying fame . Happy at any rate and dear to the gods is he to whom any deity has vouch- safed all these elements ! But if anyone thinks that those who have not good natural ability cannot to some extent ...
... Plato , and of all who have won undying fame . Happy at any rate and dear to the gods is he to whom any deity has vouch- safed all these elements ! But if anyone thinks that those who have not good natural ability cannot to some extent ...
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... Plato seems to me to give excellent advice to nurses not to tell their children any kind of fables , that their souls may not in the very dawn of existence be full of folly or corruption . ' Phocylides the poet also seems to give ...
... Plato seems to me to give excellent advice to nurses not to tell their children any kind of fables , that their souls may not in the very dawn of existence be full of folly or corruption . ' Phocylides the poet also seems to give ...
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... your son to take his food in his right hand , and chide him if he " " 1 1 Plato , " Clitophon , " p . 255 , D. 2 Compare Diogenes Laertius , ii . 72 . 2 : offers his left , whereas you care very little 6 PLUTARCH'S MORALS .
... your son to take his food in his right hand , and chide him if he " " 1 1 Plato , " Clitophon , " p . 255 , D. 2 Compare Diogenes Laertius , ii . 72 . 2 : offers his left , whereas you care very little 6 PLUTARCH'S MORALS .
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... I am reckoned rather wise . For those who are little thought of by the wise , seem to hit the taste 1 IIe was asked by Polus , see Plato , " Gorgias , " p . 290 , F. of the vulgar . " And I have myself noticed 8 PLUTARCH'S MORALS .
... I am reckoned rather wise . For those who are little thought of by the wise , seem to hit the taste 1 IIe was asked by Polus , see Plato , " Gorgias , " p . 290 , F. of the vulgar . " And I have myself noticed 8 PLUTARCH'S MORALS .
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... Plato , “ Cratylus , ” p . 257 , Ε . ὦ παῖ Ιππονίκου Ερμόγενες , παλαιὰ παροιμία , ὅτι χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά ἐστιν ὅπη ἔχει μαθεῖν . So Horace , " Sat. " i . ix . 59 , 60 , " Nil sine magno Vita labore dedit mortalibus . " i.e. , occasionally ...
... Plato , “ Cratylus , ” p . 257 , Ε . ὦ παῖ Ιππονίκου Ερμόγενες , παλαιὰ παροιμία , ὅτι χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά ἐστιν ὅπη ἔχει μαθεῖν . So Horace , " Sat. " i . ix . 59 , 60 , " Nil sine magno Vita labore dedit mortalibus . " i.e. , occasionally ...
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