But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.
PlutarchAs soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.
PlutarchThe new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.
PlutarchThe real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
PlutarchWhen one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.
PlutarchSeeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.
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