Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.
PlutarchBut for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
PlutarchWhen malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
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