Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... philosopher was unto Apelles the painter , Plutark in his Morals will tell you . ' 991 In 1882 the Reverend C. W. King , Senior Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge , translated the six " Theosophi- cal Essays " of the Moralia ...
... philosopher was unto Apelles the painter , Plutark in his Morals will tell you . ' 991 In 1882 the Reverend C. W. King , Senior Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge , translated the six " Theosophi- cal Essays " of the Moralia ...
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... philosopher , they would not have lowered themselves by such practices , but would have remembered the precept of Diogenes , whose advice sounds rather low , but is really of excellent moral intent , 2 " Go into a brothel , my lad ...
... philosopher , they would not have lowered themselves by such practices , but would have remembered the precept of Diogenes , whose advice sounds rather low , but is really of excellent moral intent , 2 " Go into a brothel , my lad ...
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... philosopher Bion , that , as those suitors who could not seduce Penelope took up with her maids as a pis aller , so those who cannot attain philosophy wear them . selves out in useless pursuits . Philosophy , therefore , ought 1 1 ...
... philosopher Bion , that , as those suitors who could not seduce Penelope took up with her maids as a pis aller , so those who cannot attain philosophy wear them . selves out in useless pursuits . Philosophy , therefore , ought 1 1 ...
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... philosophers , in regard to some of their questions , owing to their variety of opinion , have appealed to the brute creation as to a strange state , and submitted the decision to their instincts and habits as not to be talked over 1 ...
... philosophers , in regard to some of their questions , owing to their variety of opinion , have appealed to the brute creation as to a strange state , and submitted the decision to their instincts and habits as not to be talked over 1 ...
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... philosophers , or perhaps in the gymnasiums and wrestling - schools , keenly and nobly pursuing youths , and urging on to virtue those who are well worthy of attention : but that soft and stay - at - home love , spending all its time in ...
... philosophers , or perhaps in the gymnasiums and wrestling - schools , keenly and nobly pursuing youths , and urging on to virtue those who are well worthy of attention : but that soft and stay - at - home love , spending all its time in ...
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