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Plutarch's writings are of indisputable value...[his] character as depicted in them possesses a natural charm of pleasantness & amiability which it is not easy to match among all extant classical authors.
...if learning must suffer a general shipwreck, and he had only his choice left him of preserving one author...he answered, Plutarch...that in saving him, he should secure the best collection of them all.
— Jul 13, 2017 02:36PM
...if learning must suffer a general shipwreck, and he had only his choice left him of preserving one author...he answered, Plutarch...that in saving him, he should secure the best collection of them all.
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Cato
It being his ambition to be curious and singular in all things
He has no time for great matters who concerns himself with petty ones
Philopoemen
He spent much time on eloquence & philosophy, but selected his authors, and cared only for those by whom he might profit in virtue
And took delight, in leisure hours, in the histories of Alexander: thinking that such reading…was to the purpose for action
— Jul 18, 2017 12:45PM
It being his ambition to be curious and singular in all things
He has no time for great matters who concerns himself with petty ones
Philopoemen
He spent much time on eloquence & philosophy, but selected his authors, and cared only for those by whom he might profit in virtue
And took delight, in leisure hours, in the histories of Alexander: thinking that such reading…was to the purpose for action
شمس
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When he was past his childhood, he went once to a grammar-school, and asked the master for one of Homer's books; and he making answer that he had nothing of Homer's, Alcibiades gave him a blow with his first, and went away.
-Life of Alcibiades
— Jul 16, 2017 07:23AM
-Life of Alcibiades
