Plutarch's Morals
Plutarch
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Plutarch · 31 chapters
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- Literary English
- Everyday expressions
- Advanced vocabulary
- Long sentence structures
Quotes from this book
"Unless the foundation of a house be well laid, the descendants must of necessity be unfortunate."
"It makes a man even of noble spirit servile, when he is conscious of the ill fame of either his father or mother."
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- PREFACE.Sample
- ON EDUCATION.
- ON LOVE TO ONE'S OFFSPRING.
- ON LOVE.
- PLUTARCH SENDS GREETING TO POLLIANUS AND EURYDICE.
- CONSOLATORY LETTER TO HIS WIFE.
- THAT VIRTUE MAY BE TAUGHT.
- ON VIRTUE AND VICE.
- ON MORAL VIRTUE.
- HOW ONE MAY BE AWARE OF ONE'S PROGRESS IN VIRTUE.
- WHETHER VICE IS SUFFICIENT TO CAUSE UNHAPPINESS.304
- WHETHER THE DISORDERS OF MIND OR BODY ARE WORSE.
- ON ABUNDANCE OF FRIENDS.
- HOW ONE MAY DISCERN A FLATTERER FROM A FRIEND.
- HOW A MAN MAY BE BENEFITED BY HIS ENEMIES.
- ON TALKATIVENESS.541
- ON CURIOSITY.608
- ON SHYNESS.636
- A DIALOGUE BETWEEN SYLLA AND FUNDANUS.
- PLUTARCH SENDS GREETING TO PACCIUS.
- ON ENVY AND HATRED.
- HOW ONE CAN PRAISE ONESELF WITHOUT EXCITING ENVY.
- ON THOSE WHO ARE PUNISHED BY THE DEITY LATE.
- AGAINST BORROWING MONEY.
- WHETHER "LIVE UNKNOWN" BE A WISE PRECEPT.
- ON EXILE
- ON FORTUNE.
- INDEX.