Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
The essays here rendered into English have not been selected as the very best pieces in Plutarch’s _Moralia_, but, first, as typical examples of his writing in that kind, and, second, as covering between them a tolerably large field of interesting matter. The _Moralia_ offer u...
The essays here rendered into English have not been selected as the very best pieces in Plutarch’s _Moralia_, but, first, as typical examples of his writing in that kind, and, s...
2. Part 2That he gave philosophical education, though apparently not of a systematic and pedagogic kind, to persons of both sexes is known from his own references to the practice. Whethe...
3. Part 3_The Seven Sages are here Thales, Bias, Pittacus, Solon, Chilon, Cleobulus, Anacharsis (see Notes on Persons and Places). The list varies with different writers, but Thales, Bia...
4. Part 4After a brief delay Solon said: ‘In my opinion a king or despot would win most renown _by furnishing his fellow-citizens with a popular, in place of a monarchical, government_.’...
5. Part 5[Sidenote: 158] if all that provision is to be made. I am surprised, Solon, if your guest, on recently making his great purification of Delos, failed to note how they present to...
6. Part 6Anacharsis next made the remark that, as Thales believed [Sidenote: E] all the greatest and most important components of the universe to contain soul, there was no reason to won...
7. Part 7[Sidenote: 788] We may also appeal to the great Epaminondas and his remark to the Thebans. It was winter at the time, and the Arcadians were inviting them to enter the city and...
8. Part 8Not even positions of authority are any longer a suitable [Sidenote: B] sphere for him, unless they are of high rank and importance; such a position, for example, as you now hol...
9. Part 9[Sidenote: B] 16. When the Persian kings are dining or feasting, their legitimate wives sit at their side. But when they wish to amuse themselves or get tipsy, they send those w...
10. Part 10If a house is stuffy, dark, chilly, or unhealthy, it is perhaps [Sidenote: 515 B] best to get out of it. But if long association makes you fond of the place, you may alter the l...
11. Part 11is a saying which is generally true of what we see inside—a litter of pots and pans, or servant-girls sitting about, but nothing of [Sidenote: B] any importance or interest. Thi...
12. Part 12No uttered word has ever done such service as many which have been unuttered. You may some day utter what you have kept silent, but you cannot unsay what has been said; it has b...
13. Part 13says Sophocles, and so has speech or answer. In running, the victor is the man who comes in first, but here the case is different. If another makes a satisfactory reply, the pro...
14. Part 14[Sidenote: B] Let the love of glory, then, be brought to terms with the love of learning. Let us listen to a speaker with friendly courtesy, regarding ourselves as guests at a s...
15. Part 15Our expressions in applauding must not, however, be used without discrimination. It is an unpleasing phrase of Epicurus when, in speaking of the little epistles from his friends...
16. Part 16Vice in high places cannot be hid. When an epileptic is placed upon a height and made to turn round, he is seized with giddiness and begins to totter, his malady being betrayed...
17. Part 17Since, as we have observed, pleasure is another point in common—a good type of man taking as much delight in his friends as a weak man does in his flatterers—we may proceed to m...
18. Part 18These devices, however, are of minor moment. The matter becomes grave—as meaning ruin to foolish people—when a man is accused of the opposite disorders to those with which he is...
19. Part 19Since, therefore, it as an ugly thing when our striving to be agreeable lands us in flattery, and an ugly thing when, in the avoidance of flattery, all the spirit of friendly sy...
20. Part 20Not only does it temper the harshness of the punishment [Sidenote: D] inflicted by the reproach; it sets a man at rivalry with himself. When reminded of the things which stand t...
21. Part 21What the consequence is to these admirable fathers, when they bring up their sons badly and educate them badly, is soon told. On coming of age and taking rank as men, the sons s...
22. Part 22[Sidenote: D] So far I have had no doubt or hesitation in what I have said of the modesty and good behaviour of children. But upon the matter which now calls for mention I am du...
23. Part 23=Chábrȋas=: Athenian commander at various times between 392 and 357 B.C., gaining some successes by land and sea against the Spartans. An able tactician, adventurous, but of som...
24. Part 24=Nicander=: poet and physician of Colophon; _fl._ in earlier half of second century B.C. Two of his poems are extant: the _Theriaca_ on venomous animals, and the _Alexipharmaca_...
25. Part 25● Transcriber’s Notes: ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected. ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected. ○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were mad...