Or is it that of all numbers nine is the first square from the odd and perfect triad, while eight is the first cube from the even dyad? Now a man sho… - Plutarch
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Or is it that of all numbers nine is the first square from the odd and perfect triad, while eight is the first cube from the even dyad? Now a man should be four-square, eminent, and perfect; but a woman, like a cube, should be stable, domestic, and difficult to remove from her place.
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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (c. 46 – 120) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist.
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