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Plutarch's Morals, Plutarch
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Plutarch

Plutarch's Morals

  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    And we must marry our sons to wives not much richer or better born, for the proverb is a sound one, "Marry in your own walk of life
  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    hope of honour, and fear of punishment; the former inciting to good practices, the latter deterring from bad
  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    ought during all that period to guard and watch and restrain their youths, by precepts, by threats, by entreaties, by advice, by promises, by citing examples
  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    For that prime of life is prodigal in pleasure, and frisky, and needs a bridle, so that those parents who do not strongly check that period, are foolishly, if unawares, giving their youths license for vice
  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    By this speech he made Alexander his enemy
  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    For silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech
  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    And what has not been said is easy to say, while what has been once said can never be recalled
  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    When two are talking, and one of them is in a passion, he is the wiser who first gives way
  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    the tongue must be under control, so must the temper and the hands
  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    We must also keep our sons from filthy language.
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