Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1898 - 408 pages |
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Page 11
... ourselves to rulers , love our friends , be chaste in our relations with women , kind to our children , and not to treat our slaves badly ; and , what is of the greatest importance , to be neither over elated in pros- perity nor over ...
... ourselves to rulers , love our friends , be chaste in our relations with women , kind to our children , and not to treat our slaves badly ; and , what is of the greatest importance , to be neither over elated in pros- perity nor over ...
Page 64
... ourselves and foreigners , who can feel any patience with those that reproach Aphrodite with hinder- ing friendship when she associates herself with Love as a partner ? Whereas any reflecting person would call the love of boys wanton ...
... ourselves and foreigners , who can feel any patience with those that reproach Aphrodite with hinder- ing friendship when she associates herself with Love as a partner ? Whereas any reflecting person would call the love of boys wanton ...
Page 85
... ourselves . And this one I know was more especially beloved by you , as she was the first daughter after four sons , when you longed for a daughter , and so I gave her your name . ' And as you are very fond of children your grief must ...
... ourselves . And this one I know was more especially beloved by you , as she was the first daughter after four sons , when you longed for a daughter , and so I gave her your name . ' And as you are very fond of children your grief must ...
Page 127
... ourselves , and that it may not appear to others to be vain - glorious or ambitious , and we must show that we are as willing to listen as to teach , and especially must we lay aside all disputatiousness and love of strife in ...
... ourselves , and that it may not appear to others to be vain - glorious or ambitious , and we must show that we are as willing to listen as to teach , and especially must we lay aside all disputatiousness and love of strife in ...
Page 128
... ourselves in regard to public speaking , if we are not timid and do not shrink from speaking when a large audience has unexpectedly been got together , nor dejected when we have only a small one to harangue to , and if we do not , when ...
... ourselves in regard to public speaking , if we are not timid and do not shrink from speaking when a large audience has unexpectedly been got together , nor dejected when we have only a small one to harangue to , and if we do not , when ...
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