“Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.”
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Plutarch's Complete Works
This volume includes Plutarch's famous Parallel Lives, which compares the lives of notable figures from Greece and Rome, as well as his Moralia, a collection of essays and treatises on various subjects. more
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