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This could be the ancient greek version of “with great power comes great responsibility.”
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A star-filled night sky forms the background. Centered on a light rectangular overlay is the quote: “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch. Bottom left shows the Humanism Church logo, and bottom right reads “humanism.church”.
We are not merely empty repositories into which you can pour information. Our minds consume information and through our experiences and thinking it is transformed into knowledge and wisdom. #Philosophy #Humanism #Plutarch #HumanismChurch
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"Call Me By Your Name", 2007 novel by André Aciman, 2017 film, an intriguing title with various explanations: joke about same-sex, same-named couple; Wagner; #Plutarch?
I gathered in a ('topos') doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
btw haven't read book, loved film, it got me interested. #quotesky
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Joe Mathews: Newsom won’t stop quoting #Plutarch, an ancient Greek historian. It’s a telling reference.
#history #civics #politics #GavinNewsom #California
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/articl...
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'But for the psyche's illnesses and sufferings the only pharmakon is philosophia' Plutarch
'On Medication 5: ... and the Symbolic?'
#lacan #freud #psychoanalysis #plutarch #philosophy
#philosophia
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Poisons and Antidotes 4:
𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩, 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝟏𝟔𝟒𝟗
Oil on canvas (96 × 96 cm) by Eustache Le Sueur; inventory no: NG6576. The National Gallery, London.
#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #AlexandertheGreat #Plutarch #Poisoning
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How to Listen: An Ancient Guide to Learning from Others by Plutarch, edited and translated by Jeffrey Beneker
A lively new translation of Plutarch’s charming and timeless essay on how to be a good listener—and why listening is essential to learning and living well.
How to Listen is out now!
Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#Philosophy #AncientWisdom #Plutarch #Listening
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"Because we cannot live in this world out of the neighborhood of such as will continually labor to…oppose us, let us search out ways whereby advantage and profit from enemies may be acquired."
— #Plutarch. "How a Man May Receive Advantage and Profit From His Enemies."
archive.org/details/plut...
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America, dormitne Brutus?
(America, does Brutus sleep?)
#Latin #Classics #Republic #AncientHistory #Plutarch
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"the tyrant set upon [Aratus] on all hands, whilst the Argives, as if it had not been their liberty that was contended for, but some Nemean game going on for which it was their privilege to assign the prize, like fair and impartial judges, sat looking on in great quietness." #Plutarch
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The Voice of Kindness Toward Animals
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#plutarch #animalrights #kindness #philosophy
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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
- #Plutarch
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Works of excellence produce, in those who search them out, a certain zeal and enthusiasm to imitate.
- #Plutarch
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Sometimes unorthodox tactics are the best. Today, we take a quick look at the famous diversionary tactic used against Hannibal’s invasion of Italy by Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus.
#romanhistory #rome #livy #plutarch #punicwars #hannibal
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"[Lycurgus] used to say, that long hair made good-looking men more beautiful, and ill-looking men more terrible."
#Plutarch
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“A politician’s speech should not be childish and dramatic, as if he were playing out some skit in public”
Ὁ μέντοι λόγος ἔστω τοῦ πολιτικοῦ μήτε νεαρὸς καὶ θεατρικός, ὥσπερ πανηγυρίζοντος #Plutarch
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Manilius, also, who, according to the public expectation, would have been next consul, [Cato the Elder] threw out of the senate, because, in the presence of his daughter, and in open day, he had kissed his wife.
#Plutarch
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[Cato the Elder] would also tell you, that he had rather be deprived of the reward for doing well, than not to suffer the punishment for doing ill; and that he could pardon all offenders but himself.
#Plutarch
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"an illiterate clownish fellow, giving Aristides his [ballot for ostracism]... begged him to write Aristides... "I am tired of hearing him everywhere called the Just." Aristides, hearing this, is said to have made no reply, but returned the sherd with his own name inscribed."
#Plutarch
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“The mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.” - Plutarch
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Blackrock bought the Panama Canal?
#panama #panamacanal #blackrock #corrupt #oligarchy #plutarch #america #problem #wakup #issues #bigprobs #bigdawg #standin #alerts
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Plutarch knew: minds that burn with purpose change the world. Let yours catch fire. And pass it on. #Plutarch #firewithin
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