Plutarch

Plutarch's Morals


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       Plutarch

      Plutarch's Morals

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664124043

       PREFACE.

       PLUTARCH'S MORALS.

       ON LOVE TO ONE'S OFFSPRING.

       ON LOVE.

       CONJUGAL PRECEPTS.

       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

       ON RESTRAINING ANGER.

       ON CONTENTEDNESS OF MIND. 711

       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.

       Table of Contents

      In 1882 the Reverend C. W. King, Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, translated the six "Theosophical Essays" of the Moralia, forming a volume in Bohn's Classical Library. The present volume consists of the twenty-six "Ethical Essays," which are, in my opinion, the cream of the Moralia, and constitute a highly interesting series of treatises on what might be called "The Ethics of the Hearth and Home." I have grouped these Essays in such a manner as to enable the reader to read together such as touch on the same or on kindred subjects.

      As is well known, the text of the Moralia is very corrupt, and the reading very doubtful, in many places. In eight of the twenty-six Essays in this volume I have had the invaluable help of the text of Rudolf Hercher; help so invaluable that one cannot but sadly regret that only one volume of the Moralia has yet appeared in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana. Wyttenbach's text and notes I have always used when available, and when not so have fallen back upon Reiske. Reiske is always ingenious, but too fond of correcting a text, and the criticism of him by Wyttenbach is perhaps substantially correct. "In nullo auctore habitabat; vagabatur per omnes: nec apud quemquam tamdiu divertebat, ut in paulo interiorem ejus consuetudinem se insinuaret." I have also had constantly before me the Didot Edition of the Moralia, edited by Frederic Dübner.

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