Plutarch's Morals: Ethical EssaysGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 408 pages |
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... disease , cannot have inroads made into it by old age . For the mind alone flourishes in age ; and while time takes away everything else , it adds wisdom to old age . Even war , that sweeps away every- thing else like a winter torrent ...
... disease , cannot have inroads made into it by old age . For the mind alone flourishes in age ; and while time takes away everything else , it adds wisdom to old age . Even war , that sweeps away every- thing else like a winter torrent ...
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... diseases and maladies of the soul driving a man contrary to nature out of his wits as men themselves testify even against ... disease.3 1 See Cicero " Tuscul . " i . 34 . 66 2 Euripides , Alcestis , " 1159 ; " Helena , " 1688 ; 66 1284 ...
... diseases and maladies of the soul driving a man contrary to nature out of his wits as men themselves testify even against ... disease.3 1 See Cicero " Tuscul . " i . 34 . 66 2 Euripides , Alcestis , " 1159 ; " Helena , " 1688 ; 66 1284 ...
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... disease of the body called the sacred disease . It is no wonder , therefore , if some call the greatest and most insane passion of the soul sacred and divine . However , as in Egypt I once saw two neighbours 66 1 The women of Lemnos ...
... disease of the body called the sacred disease . It is no wonder , therefore , if some call the greatest and most insane passion of the soul sacred and divine . However , as in Egypt I once saw two neighbours 66 1 The women of Lemnos ...
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... diseases , But to conduct the souls of the departed . ' : And yet these duties involve much unpleasantness , whereas we cannot mention a holier work , nor any struggle or con- test more fitting for a god to attend and play the umpire in ...
... diseases , But to conduct the souls of the departed . ' : And yet these duties involve much unpleasantness , whereas we cannot mention a holier work , nor any struggle or con- test more fitting for a god to attend and play the umpire in ...
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... disease or old age or pain , and have not to cross the resounding Acheron ; ' nor do the philosophers accept as gods Strifes , or Prayers , which are found in poetry ; nor will they admit Terror and Fear as gods or as the sons of Ares ...
... disease or old age or pain , and have not to cross the resounding Acheron ; ' nor do the philosophers accept as gods Strifes , or Prayers , which are found in poetry ; nor will they admit Terror and Fear as gods or as the sons of Ares ...
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