Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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Page 12
... excessive sleep and fatigue are enemies to learning . But why dwell on this ? For I am in a hurry to pass to the most important point . Our lads must be trained for warlike encounters , making themselves efficient in hurling the javelin ...
... excessive sleep and fatigue are enemies to learning . But why dwell on this ? For I am in a hurry to pass to the most important point . Our lads must be trained for warlike encounters , making themselves efficient in hurling the javelin ...
Page 13
... excessive praise , for that will make them vain and give themselves airs . § XIII . And I have ere now seen some fathers , whose ex- cessive love for their children has turned into hatred . My meaning I will endeavour to make clearer by ...
... excessive praise , for that will make them vain and give themselves airs . § XIII . And I have ere now seen some fathers , whose ex- cessive love for their children has turned into hatred . My meaning I will endeavour to make clearer by ...
Page 36
... excessive wealth of their wives , as if it had wings that required clipping ; for this same wealth implants in them luxury , caprice , and vanity , by which they are often elated and fly away alto- gether but if they remain , it would ...
... excessive wealth of their wives , as if it had wings that required clipping ; for this same wealth implants in them luxury , caprice , and vanity , by which they are often elated and fly away alto- gether but if they remain , it would ...
Page 64
... excessive love for her , and not in sheer villany . He came , therefore , with confidence , and asked her hand , and she met him and greeted him and led him to the altar of the goddess , and pledged him in a cup of poisoned mead ...
... excessive love for her , and not in sheer villany . He came , therefore , with confidence , and asked her hand , and she met him and greeted him and led him to the altar of the goddess , and pledged him in a cup of poisoned mead ...
Page 85
... excessive , it would trouble me even more than the event itself . And yet I have not a heart hard as heart of oak or flintstone , as you yourself know very well , who have shared with me in the bringing up of so many children , as they ...
... excessive , it would trouble me even more than the event itself . And yet I have not a heart hard as heart of oak or flintstone , as you yourself know very well , who have shared with me in the bringing up of so many children , as they ...
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