Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... admired . I am also of the same opinion with regard to the disposition of the soul , which ought to be neither audacious nor timid and easily dejected : for the one ends in impudence and the other in servility ; but to keep in all ...
... admired . I am also of the same opinion with regard to the disposition of the soul , which ought to be neither audacious nor timid and easily dejected : for the one ends in impudence and the other in servility ; but to keep in all ...
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... admired in the theatres , " Man loves man only for reward , " and is the view of Epicurus , who thinks that the father so loves his son , the mother her child , children their parents . Whereas , if the brutes could understand ...
... admired in the theatres , " Man loves man only for reward , " and is the view of Epicurus , who thinks that the father so loves his son , the mother her child , children their parents . Whereas , if the brutes could understand ...
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... admiration for her , to exhibit himself as her equal not her slave , and ( to borrow an illustration from the scales ) to add just so much weight to his character as shall over- balance her , yet only just . Moreover , both Ismenodora ...
... admiration for her , to exhibit himself as her equal not her slave , and ( to borrow an illustration from the scales ) to add just so much weight to his character as shall over- balance her , yet only just . Moreover , both Ismenodora ...
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... admired a very small matter , when he wrote the line- ' Love teaches letters to a man unlearn'd . ' For it makes one previously sluggish quick and intelligent , and , as has been said before , it makes the coward brave , as people ...
... admired a very small matter , when he wrote the line- ' Love teaches letters to a man unlearn'd . ' For it makes one previously sluggish quick and intelligent , and , as has been said before , it makes the coward brave , as people ...
Page 54
... admiration and wonder ; but if they see a little , mean , and ignoble soul suddenly filled with noble - mindedness ... admires nothing , courts nothing , but can even endure to gaze on ' the forked lightning , " yet directly he looks on ...
... admiration and wonder ; but if they see a little , mean , and ignoble soul suddenly filled with noble - mindedness ... admires nothing , courts nothing , but can even endure to gaze on ' the forked lightning , " yet directly he looks on ...
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