Plutarch's Morals: Theosophical EssaysG. Bell, 1889 - 287 páginas |
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Página 270 - Take even the most extreme type of difference. Is the man, says Plutarch, " a criminal who holds there are no gods ; and is not he that holds them to be such as the superstitious believe them, is he not possessed with notions infinitely more atrocious? I for my part would much rather have men say of me that there never was a Plutarch at all, nor is now, than to say that Plutarch is a man inconstant, fickle, easily moved to anger, revengeful for trifling provocations, vexed at small things.
Página 209 - The distance of the sun from the earth is greater than eighteen times, but less than twenty times, the distance of the moon (from the earth); this follows from the hypothesis about the halved moon.