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Plutarch's Morals

by Plutarch (46–119)

23 chapters, about 117,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE. 600 words
2. ON EDUCATION. 8,000 words
3. ON LOVE TO ONE'S OFFSPRING. 2,700 words
4. ON LOVE. 10,700 words
5. PLUTARCH SENDS GREETING TO POLLIANUS AND EURYDICE. 4,900 words
6. CONSOLATORY LETTER TO HIS WIFE. 3,000 words
7. THAT VIRTUE MAY BE TAUGHT. 900 words
8. ON VIRTUE AND VICE. 1,000 words
9. ON MORAL VIRTUE. 12,400 words
10. WHETHER VICE IS SUFFICIENT TO CAUSE UNHAPPINESS.[304] 1,700 words
11. ON ABUNDANCE OF FRIENDS. 18,400 words
12. ON TALKATIVENESS.[541] 6,500 words
13. ON CURIOSITY.[608] 3,600 words
14. ON SHYNESS.[636] 4,300 words
15. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN SYLLA AND FUNDANUS. 4,400 words
16. PLUTARCH SENDS GREETING TO PACCIUS. 5,500 words
17. ON ENVY AND HATRED. 1,400 words
18. HOW ONE CAN PRAISE ONESELF WITHOUT EXCITING ENVY. 14,900 words
19. AGAINST BORROWING MONEY. 2,700 words
20. WHETHER "LIVE UNKNOWN" BE A WISE PRECEPT. 1,500 words
21. ON EXILE. 4,000 words
22. ON FORTUNE. 1,200 words
23. INDEX. 3,000 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Ability
• Aeschylus
• Envy
• Ethos
• Exile
• Hatred
• Love
• Nero
• Passion (emotion)
• Praise
• Self-control

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