Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.
PlutarchWisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
PlutarchTo be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
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