[Apollo], whose oracle is in Delphi, neither speaks nor sup… - Plutarch

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[Apollo], whose oracle is in Delphi, neither speaks nor suppresses, but indicates.

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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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Being human and investigating the affairs of the gods is an extreme version of being tone-deaf and talking about music, or having never served in the army and talking about warfare: we resemble amateurs trying to use arguments from probability based on opinions and conjecture to unearth the ideas of experts.

we ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

When one asked him what boys should learn, "That," said he, "which they shall use when men."

[Apollo], whose oracle is in Delphi, neither speaks nor suppresses, but indicates. - Plutarch

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