Thus it is that most people seem to suffer more from hard w… - Plutarch

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Thus it is that most people seem to suffer more from hard words than hard deeds, and are more excited by insult than by actual hurt. What we do to our enemies in war is done of necessity, but the evil we say of them seems to spring from an excess of spite.

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (c. 46 – 120) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist.

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Native Name: L. Mestrius Plutarchus • Πλούταρχος

Alternative Names: Plutarchus • Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus • Plutarchos • Plutarch of Chaeronea • Ploutarchos

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