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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

Plutarch
Envy, Soul, Disorder

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

Plutarch
Time, Soul, World
Platonic Questions, VIII, 4. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

Plutarch
Life, Soul, Mistress
Plutarch (1834). “Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek; with Notes, Historical & Critical; & a Life of Plutarch”, p.222

Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.

Plutarch
Soul, Looks, Noble
"Plutarch's Lives in Eight Volumes".

The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.

Plutarch
Men, Soul, Together
Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2612, Delphi Classics

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