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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.


— Plutarch


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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.


— Plutarch


#courage #cowardice #excess #halfway #lack

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.


— Plutarch


#better #contempt #god #him #only

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.


— Plutarch


#direct #easily #harder #man #managed

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.


— Plutarch


#celebrated #childhood #continue #days #ignorant

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.


— Plutarch


#failings #far #faults #habits #individuals

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.


— Plutarch


#filled #fire #kindled #mind #vessel

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.


— Plutarch


#benefits #destroyer #donations #liberties #people

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.


— Plutarch


#painting #silent #speaks

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.


— Plutarch


#fortunate #less #speak #than #your






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According to the 10th century historian George Syncellus late in Plutarch's life emperor Hadrian appointed him nominal procurator of Achaea – a position that entitled him to wear the vestments and ornaments of a consul himself. Then he himself making his way with difficulty after all the rest plunged into the muddy current and at last without his shield partly swimming and partly wading got across. Again in Britain when the enemy had fallen upon the foremost centurions who had plunged into a watery marsh a soldier while Caesar in person was watching the battle daPlutarchd into the midst of the fight displayed many conspicuous deeds of daring and rescued the centurions after the Barbarians had been routed.

46 – 120 AD was a Greek historian biographer and essayist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. Plutarch (/ˈpluːtɑrk/; Greek: Πλούταρχος Ploútarkhos Koine Greek: [plŭːtarkʰos]) then named on his becoming a Roman citizen Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Λούκιος Μέστριος Πλούταρχος)c. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea Boeotia a town about twenty miles east of Delphi.

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