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Against Quotes by Plutarch
- We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
- Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety…
- Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
- As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury…
- Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked…
- It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a…
- For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does…
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