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Plutarch
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Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. They are tall, said he, and comely, but bear no fruit.
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Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.
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Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.
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When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, I'll lay my life, said he, somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'
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Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
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Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
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Pittacus said, Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine and he is very happy who hath this only.
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As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.
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Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.
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As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.
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When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
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Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'
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Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.
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It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.
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