Plutarch's Morals - Plutarch

Let any reader who wishes to know more about Plutarch, consult the article on Plutarch, in the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, by the well-known scholar F. A. Paley. He will also do well to read an Essay on Plutarch by R. W. Emerson, reprinted in Volume III. of the Bohn's Standard Library Edition of Emerson's Works, and Five Lectures on Plutarch by the late Archbishop Trench, published by Messrs. Macmillan and Co. in 1874. All these contain much of interest, and will repay perusal.

In conclusion, I hope this little volume will be the means of making popular some of the best thoughts of one of the most interesting and thoughtful of the ancients, who often seems indeed almost a modern.

Cambridge,
March, 1888.

[1] See article Plutarch, in Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ninth Edition.

[2] Grosart's Herrick, vol. i. p. liii. See in this volume, p. [180], and also note to p. [288]. Richard Baxter again is always quoting the Moralia.

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I.	ON EDUCATION.	[1]
II.	ON LOVE TO ONE'S OFFSPRING.	[21]
III.	ON LOVE.	[29]
IV.	CONJUGAL PRECEPTS.	[70]
V.	CONSOLATORY LETTER TO HIS WIFE.	[85]
VI.	THAT VIRTUE MAY BE TAUGHT.	[92]
VII.	ON VIRTUE AND VICE.	[95]
VIII.	ON MORAL VIRTUE.	[98]
IX.	HOW ONE MAY BE AWARE OF ONE'S PROGRESS IN VIRTUE.	[118]
X.	WHETHER VICE IS SUFFICIENT TO CAUSE UNHAPPINESS.	[138]
XI.	WHETHER THE DISORDERS OF MIND OR BODY ARE WORSE.	[142]
XII.	ON ABUNDANCE OF FRIENDS.	[145]
XIII.	HOW ONE MAY DISCERN A FLATTERER FROM A FRIEND.	[153]
XIV.	HOW A MAN MAY BE BENEFITED BY HIS ENEMIES.	[201]
XV.	ON TALKATIVENESS.	[214]
XVI.	ON CURIOSITY.	[238]
XVII.	ON SHYNESS.	[252]
XVIII.	ON RESTRAINING ANGER.	[267]
XIX.	ON CONTENTEDNESS OF MIND.	[289]
XX.	ON ENVY AND HATRED.	[312]
XXI.	HOW ONE CAN PRAISE ONESELF WITHOUT EXCITING ENVY.	[315]
XXII.	ON THOSE WHO ARE PUNISHED BY THE DEITY LATE.	[331]
XXIII.	AGAINST BORROWING MONEY.	[365]
XXIV.	WHETHER "LIVE UNKNOWN" BE A WISE PRECEPT.	[373]
XXV.	ON EXILE.	[378]
XXVI.	ON FORTUNE.	[394]

INDEX		[401]

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