The Morals, vol. 4
Vol. 4 of a massive 5 volume work in which Plutarch muses on all manner of topics ranging from virtue and vice, friendship, flattery, the nature of love, stoic philosophy, fate, to the nature of government.
Plutarch’s Morals. Translated from the Greek by Several Hands. Corrected and Revised by William W. Goodwin, with an Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 5 Volumes. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1878). Vol. 4.
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The text is in the public domain.
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- Author: Plutarch
- Translator: William W. Goodwin
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS OF VOLUME FOURTH. WITH THE TRANSLATORS’ NAMES.
- PLUTARCH’S MORALS.
- WHY THE ORACLES CEASE TO GIVE ANSWERS.
- LAMPRIAS, CLEOMBROTUS, DIDYMUS, PHILIPPUS, DEMETRIUS, AMMONIUS, HERACLEON.
- OF ISIS AND OSIRIS, OR OF THE ANCIENT RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF EGYPT.
- CONCERNING SUCH WHOM GOD IS SLOW TO PUNISH.
- PATROCLEAS, PLUTARCH, TIMON, OLYMPICUS.
- OF NATURAL AFFECTION TOWARDS ONE’S OFFSPRING.
- CONCERNING THE FORTUNE OF THE ROMANS.
- OF GARRULITY, OR TALKATIVENESS
- OF LOVE.
- FLAVIANUS AND AUTOBULUS, SONS OF PLUTARCH.
- FIVE TRAGICAL HISTORIES OF LOVE.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- A DISCOURSE TO AN UNLEARNED PRINCE.
- OF HERODOTUS’S MALICE.
- OF COMMON CONCEPTIONS, AGAINST THE STOICS.
- LAMPRIAS, DIADUMENUS.
- THE CONTRADICTIONS OF THE STOICS.
- OF THE WORD EI ENGRAVEN OVER THE GATE OF APOLLO’S TEMPLE AT DELPHI.
- AMMONIUS, LAMPRIAS, PLUTARCH, THEON, EUSTROPHUS, NICANDER.
- WHETHER VICE IS SUFFICIENT TO RENDER A MAN UNHAPPY*
- WHETHER THE PASSIONS OF THE SOUL OR DISEASES OF THE BODY ARE WORSE.
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