Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... 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 admirable advice when he ...
... 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 admirable advice when he ...
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... give our sons than to follow this ? or to what could we better exhort them to accustom themselves ? For perfection is only attained by neither speaking nor acting at random - as the proverb says , Perfection is only attained by practice ...
... give our sons than to follow this ? or to what could we better exhort them to accustom themselves ? For perfection is only attained by neither speaking nor acting at random - as the proverb says , Perfection is only attained by practice ...
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... give rise to the acme of foolish talk . A wretched painter once showed Apelles , they say , a picture , and said , " I have just done it . " Apelles replied , “ With- out your telling me , I should know it was painted quickly ; I only ...
... give rise to the acme of foolish talk . A wretched painter once showed Apelles , they say , a picture , and said , " I have just done it . " Apelles replied , “ With- out your telling me , I should know it was painted quickly ; I only ...
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... give advice on the education of freeborn children , do you now neglect the poor and plebeian ones , and give instructions only suit- able to the rich ? " It is easy enough to meet such critics . I should prefer to make my teaching ...
... give advice on the education of freeborn children , do you now neglect the poor and plebeian ones , and give instructions only suit- able to the rich ? " It is easy enough to meet such critics . I should prefer to make my teaching ...
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... give them the breast to comfort them . But we must not puff them up and make them con- ceited with excessive praise , for that will make them vain and give themselves airs . § XIII . And I have ere now seen some fathers , whose ex ...
... give them the breast to comfort them . But we must not puff them up and make them con- ceited with excessive praise , for that will make them vain and give themselves airs . § XIII . And I have ere now seen some fathers , whose ex ...
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