Plut. Mor., Inoffensive Self-Praise 7 — How a Man May Inoffensively Praise Himself Without Being Liable to Envy

Plut. Mor., Inoffensive Self-Praise 7 — How a Man May Inoffensively Praise Himself Without Being Liable to Envy, Plutarch; served verbatim

They therefore who are injured usually recount their good actions to the ingrate. And, if they also praise those excellences which others are pleased to condemn, they are not only pardonable but altogether without blame. For it is evident they do not reproach others, but apologize for themselves. This gave Demosthenes a glorious freedom, yet allayed the offensive brightness of his own praises, which almost everywhere shine through his whole Oration on the Crown, in which he extols those embassies and decrees which were so much objected against him.

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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