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In human life there is consta...

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

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Being conscious of having don...

Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

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When Darius offered him ten t...

When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.

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Justice makes the life of suc...

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

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Whenever anything is spoken a...

Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.

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Cicero said loud-bawling orat...

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

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Scilurus on his death-bed, be...

Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.

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To Harmodius, descended from ...

To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.

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After he routed Pharnaces Pon...

After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered.

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Statesmen are not only liable...

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

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Lamentation is the only music...

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

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Not by lamentations and mourn...

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

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I, for my own part, had much ...

I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.

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When men are arrived at the g...

When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.

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Authority and place demonstra...

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

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Talkativeness has another pla...

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

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By the study of their biograp...

By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?

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A soldier told Pelopidas, "We...

A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?"

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It is no great wonder if in l...

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.

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These Macedonians are a rude ...

These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

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