Plut. Mor., Inoffensive Self-Praise 14 — How a Man May Inoffensively Praise Himself Without Being Liable to Envy

Plut. Mor., Inoffensive Self-Praise 14 — How a Man May Inoffensively Praise Himself Without Being Liable to Envy, Plutarch; served verbatim

These are the outward preventions or remedies against diseases that may arise from the speaking of one’s self. There are some others inward, which Cato has recourse to when he tells us he was envied for neglecting his domestic affairs and being vigilant whole nights in those of his country. So with this: How shall I boast, who grew so easily, Though mustered ’mongst the common soldiery; Great in my fortune as the bravest be? And this: But I am loath to lose past labor’s gains; Nor will retreat from a fresh troop of pains. For as they who obtain great possessions of houses or lands gratis and with little difficulty are under the eye of envy, but not if their purchases were troublesome and dear, so it is with them who arrive at honor and applause.

The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.

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How a Man May Inoffensively Praise Himself Without Being Liable to Envy, Plutarch — translated by P. Lancaster (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
Apparatus shelf + pinned Perseus TEI — Plutarch's Morals (the Moralia), ed. William W. Goodwin, five volumes · 'Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by William W. Goodwin, Ph. D.', with an introduction by R. W. Emerson; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874 (five volumes; a minority of the TEI transcriptions were keyed from the same publisher's 1878 reprint)
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