Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek; with Notes Critical & Historical, & a New Life of Plutarch...T. Longman, 1795 |
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Page 312 - The outside of Socrates was that of a satyr and buffoon, but his soul was all virtue, and from within him came such divine and pathetic things, as pierced the heart, and drew tears from the hearers...
Page 246 - And, in truth, all the rest of the Syracusans were no more than the body in the batteries of Archimedes, while he himself was the informing soul.