Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... FLATTERER FROM A FRIEND HOW A MAN MAY BE BENEFITED BY HIS ENEMIES 153 201 ON TALKATIVENESS 214 ON CURIOSITY 238 ON SHYNESS 252 ON RESTRAINING ANGER 267 ON CONTENTEDNESS OF MIND 289 ON ENVY AND HATRED . . . 312 HOW ONE CAN PRAISE ONESELF ...
... FLATTERER FROM A FRIEND HOW A MAN MAY BE BENEFITED BY HIS ENEMIES 153 201 ON TALKATIVENESS 214 ON CURIOSITY 238 ON SHYNESS 252 ON RESTRAINING ANGER 267 ON CONTENTEDNESS OF MIND 289 ON ENVY AND HATRED . . . 312 HOW ONE CAN PRAISE ONESELF ...
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... flatterers and para- sites in their retinue - an accursed set of wretches , the defilers and pest of youth ; others keep mistresses and common prostitutes , wanton and costly ; others waste their money in eating ; others come to grief ...
... flatterers and para- sites in their retinue - an accursed set of wretches , the defilers and pest of youth ; others keep mistresses and common prostitutes , wanton and costly ; others waste their money in eating ; others come to grief ...
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... flatterers . For , as I have often said to parents , and still say , and will constantly affirm , there is no race more pestilential , nor more sure to ruin youths swiftly , than the race of flatterers , who destroy both parents and ...
... flatterers . For , as I have often said to parents , and still say , and will constantly affirm , there is no race more pestilential , nor more sure to ruin youths swiftly , than the race of flatterers , who destroy both parents and ...
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... flatterer both , " so he must say to himself about his strict and austere wife , " I cannot have in the same woman wife and mistress . " § xxx . It was a custom among the Egyptian ladies not to wear shoes , that they might stay at home ...
... flatterer both , " so he must say to himself about his strict and austere wife , " I cannot have in the same woman wife and mistress . " § xxx . It was a custom among the Egyptian ladies not to wear shoes , that they might stay at home ...
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... " " Odes , " iii . 9 , 22 . 4 Marks of a philosopher among the ancients . Compare our Author , " How one may discern a flatterer from a friend , " § vii . K eagerly snatch at the name and reputation of philosopher , PROGRESS IN VIRTUE .
... " " Odes , " iii . 9 , 22 . 4 Marks of a philosopher among the ancients . Compare our Author , " How one may discern a flatterer from a friend , " § vii . K eagerly snatch at the name and reputation of philosopher , PROGRESS IN VIRTUE .
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