“By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?"”

— Plutarch , book Parallel Lives

What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?
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ancient Greek historian and philosopher 46–127

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