To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
PlutarchCourage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.
PlutarchLet a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.
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