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

Plutarch

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There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.

wine strong men

He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor. by Plutarch

He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.

treason traitor hated

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor hea... by Plutarch

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

wealth wisdom gold

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage. by Plutarch

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

breaths wells might

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

envious consolation usual

Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars). by Plutarch

Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).

Come back with your shield - or on it by Plutarch

Come back with your shield - or on it

sparta shields greek

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

affection friends experts

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more g... by Plutarch

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

heart friendship men

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.

Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merc... by Plutarch

Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.

benevolence humankind should

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

neighbor disease usual

Proper listening is the foundation of proper living. by Plutarch

Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.

foundation listening

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.

self character men

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.

temples humanity house

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

evil courage men

When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

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Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

shut-up miserable soldier

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

instruction mind children

Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only".

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