Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
PlutarchSometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
PlutarchThe most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.
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