It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.
PlutarchStatesmen 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.
PlutarchWhen Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
PlutarchThis excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center."
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