Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.
PlutarchThemistocles 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.
PlutarchNature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.
PlutarchChildren ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.
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