How one shall be helped by Enemies.

In his

Lives

, also, Plutarch applauds in Pericles the noble sentiment which led him to think it his most excellent attainment never to have given way to envy or anger, notwithstanding the greatness of his power, nor to have nourished an implacable hatred against his greatest foe. This, he says, was his only real title to the name of Olympius.

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[Footnote 2:]

Luke

vi. 27-32.

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