Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
PlutarchWickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
PlutarchIt is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.
PlutarchIf Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.
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