Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... popular some of the best thoughts of one of the most interesting and thoughtful of the ancients , who often seems indeed almost a modern . CAMBRIDGE , March , 1888 . • CONTENTS . ON EDUCATION ONE'S OFFSPRING ON LOVE CONJUGAL PREFACE . ix.
... popular some of the best thoughts of one of the most interesting and thoughtful of the ancients , who often seems indeed almost a modern . CAMBRIDGE , March , 1888 . • CONTENTS . ON EDUCATION ONE'S OFFSPRING ON LOVE CONJUGAL PREFACE . ix.
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... 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 admirable ...
... 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 admirable ...
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... seems to me to have made a memorable answer when Demetrius enslaved Megara and rased it to the ground . On his ... seem to hit the taste 1 IIe was asked by Polus , see Plato , " Gorgias , " p . 290 , F. of the vulgar . " And I have ...
... seems to me to have made a memorable answer when Demetrius enslaved Megara and rased it to the ground . On his ... seem to hit the taste 1 IIe was asked by Polus , see Plato , " Gorgias , " p . 290 , F. of the vulgar . " And I have ...
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... seems to be more fitting for slaves than the freeborn . For slaves try to shirk and avoid their work , partly because of the pain of blows , partly on account of being reviled . But praise or censure are far more useful than abuse to ...
... seems to be more fitting for slaves than the freeborn . For slaves try to shirk and avoid their work , partly because of the pain of blows , partly on account of being reviled . But praise or censure are far more useful than abuse to ...
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... seems to favour these views in the passage , " But there is among mortals another love , that of the righteous temperate and pure soul . " Nor must we omit the re- mark of Plato , which seems to mix seriousness with mirth , that " those ...
... seems to favour these views in the passage , " But there is among mortals another love , that of the righteous temperate and pure soul . " Nor must we omit the re- mark of Plato , which seems to mix seriousness with mirth , that " those ...
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