There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.
PlutarchLet a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.
PlutarchWhen malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
PlutarchFortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
PlutarchFor, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.
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