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“Impossible questions require impossible answers.”

Plutarch book Parallel Lives

Alexander, sec. 54
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“...they perceived that no beginnings should be considered too small to be capable of quickly becoming great by uninterrupted endurance and having no obstacle to their growth by reason of being despised.”

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sec. 4
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“Dost thou, fair Sikyon, hesitate to raise
A fitting tomb to thy lost hero's praise?
Curst be the land, nay, curst the air or wave
That grudges room for thy Aratus' grave.”

Plutarch book Parallel Lives

Aratus, sec. 53
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“A dead man does not bite.”

Plutarch book Parallel Lives

Pompeius, sec. 76
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“Twas not that life or death itself was good,
That these heroic spirits shed their blood:
This was their aim, and this their latest cry,
'Let us preserve our honour, live or die.'”

Plutarch book Parallel Lives

Pelopidas, sec. 1
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“Far from the battle, on that fatal day
Beside Thermodon may I flee away,
Or view it as an eagle from the sky;
There shall the vanquished weep, the victor die.”

Plutarch book Parallel Lives

Demosthenes, sec. 19
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“But for my own part I believe that for the enjoyment of true happiness, which depends chiefly upon a man's character and disposition, it makes no difference whether he be born in an obscure state or of an ill-favoured mother, or not.”

Plutarch book Parallel Lives

Demosthenes, sec. 1
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“I myself had rather excel others in excellency of learning than in greatness of power.”

Plutarch book Parallel Lives

Alexander, sec. 7
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“But those who are careless of accuracy in small things soon begin to neglect the most important.”

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Aemilius, sec. 3
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“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”

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