For just as in farming the first requisite is good soil, next a good farmer, next good seed, so also here: the soil corresponds to natural ability, t… - Plutarch
" "For just as in farming the first requisite is good soil, next a good farmer, next good seed, so also here: the soil corresponds to natural ability, the training to the farmer, the seed to precepts and instruction.
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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (c. 46 – 120) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist.
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L. Mestrius Plutarchus
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Πλούταρχος
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Plutarchus
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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
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Plutarchos
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Plutarch of Chaeronea
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Ploutarchos
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For it may happen to the commonwealth, as to the serpent in the fable, whose tail, rising in rebellion against the head, complained, as of a great grievance, that it was always forced to follow, and required that it should be permitted by turns to lead the way. And taking the command accordingly, it soon inflicted , by its senseless courses, mischiefs in abundance upon itself, while the head was torn and lacerated with following, contrary to nature, a guide that was deaf and blind.
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