When therefore we once begin so to love good men, as not only (according to Plato) to esteem the wise man himself happy, and him who hears his discou… - Plutarch
" "When therefore we once begin so to love good men, as not only (according to Plato) to esteem the wise man himself happy, and him who hears his discourses sharer in his felicity, but also to admire and love his habit, gait, look, and very smile, so as to wish ourselves to be that very person, then we may be assured that we have made very good proficiency.
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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (c. 46 – 120) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist.
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Általában úgy van az, a fáradságos munkát is könnyebben elviseljük, ha valaki szemmel láthatóan azon igyekszik, hogy megossza velünk: így a munkát nem érezzük reánk kényszerített fáradtságnak. A római katona akkor a legboldogabb, ha a hadvezér ugyanazt a kenyeret eszi, amit ő, közönséges tábori ágyon alszik, vele együtt ássa az árkot, veri be a cölöpöt, mikor sáncot készítenek. Nem is a kitüntetéseket vagy pénzjutalmakat osztogató tisztjeikért rajonganak kiváltképpen; azokat szeretik inkább, akik fáradalmakban és veszélyekben osztozkodnak velük. Az effajta tiszthez jobban ragaszkodnak, mint az olyan elnéző emberhez, aki nem bánja, ha könnyebben veszik a dolgot.
Anaxagoras is said to have predicted that if the heavenly bodies should be loosened by some slip or shake, one of them might be torn away, and might plunge and fall down to earth; and he said that none of the stars was in its original position; for being of stone, and heavy, their shining light is caused by friction with the revolving aether, and they are forced along in fixed orbits by the whirling impulse which gave them their circular motion, and this was what prevented them from falling to our earth in the first place, when cold and heavy bodies were separated from universal matter.