Category: Classics of Literature#Ethics -- Early works to 1800
Plutarch's Morals
By Plutarch
Classic work by Plutarch.
Total Chapters: 2•Public Domain Free Read
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part is a lowering their sails, not to experience or virtue or age, but
to wealth and fame. Not so Apelles the famous painter, who, when Megabyzus sat with him, and wished to talk about lines and shades, said to him, "Do you see my lads yonder grinding...
part in the matter. Thus he cunningly insinuates into the audience with
his own praises what they will gladly hear, for they rejoice at the enumeration of their successes,[785] and their joy is succeeded by admiration and esteem for the person to whom ...