Plut. Mor., Stoic Contradictions 5 — The contradictions of the Stoics

Plut. Mor., Stoic Contradictions 5 — The contradictions of the Stoics, Plutarch; served verbatim

Again, Chrysippus, writing in his treatise of Rhetoric, that a wise man will so plead and so act in the management of a commonwealth, as if riches, glory, and health were really good, confesses that his speeches are inextricable and impolitic, and his doctrines unsuitable for the uses and actions of human life.

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

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Chrysippus — a candidate entry

The contradictions of the Stoics, Plutarch — translated by E. Smith (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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