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Plutarch, Cato The Younger, 5.2

ἦν δ’ οὐ μικρόν, ὡς ἔοικεν, ἔργον, ἀλλὰ καὶ λόγων πολλῶν καὶ δεήσεως τὸ πεῖσαι καὶ μεταστῆσαι γνώμην ἀνδρὸς ἐν ἡσυχία καὶ εἰρήνῃ βεβιωκότος εἰς ἀρχὴν πόλεως τρόπον τινὰ καὶ γεγενημένης γεγνημένης Bekker has γεγεννημένης ( born ), after Coraës. πολέμῳ καὶ συνηυξημένης. ἔλεγεν οὖν τοῦ τε πατρὸς αὐτοῦ παρόντος καὶ Μαρκίου, τῶν συγγενῶν ἑνός, ὡς πᾶσα μὲν ἀνθρωπίνου βίου μεταβολὴ σφαλερὸν ᾧ δὲ μήτʼ ἄπεστί τι τῶν ἱκανῶν μήτε μεμπτόν ἐστι τῶν παρόντων, τοῦτον οὐδὲν ἄλλο πλὴν ἄνοια μετακοσμεῖ καὶ μεθίστησιν ἐκ τῶν συνήθων οἷς κἂν εἰ μηδὲν ἕτερον προσείη Every change in a man’s life is perilous; but when a man knows no lack, and has no fault to find with his present lot, nothing short of madness can change his purposes and remove him from his wonted course of life, which, even though it have no other advantage, is at least fixed and secure, and therefore better than one which is all uncertain.

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artist	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
audience, the subjects interaction with his	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
cicero, and rhetoric vs. action	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
cicero, compared with demosthenes	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
cicero	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
closure (endings of biographies)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
cowardice	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
death, of the subjects	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
death	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
demosthenes (orator), and the balance between rhetoric and action	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
demosthenes (orator), compared with cicero	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
demosthenes (orator)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
dreams	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
orator(y), plutarchs interest in	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
orator(y)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
politics, the subjects preoccupation with	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
politics	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
prologue (to plutarchs book)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
rehabilitation	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
rhetoric(al), contrasted with action	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
rhetoric(al), contrasted with ethics	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
rhetoric(al), of plutarch	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
rhetoric(al), of the subjects	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
statues	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
synkrisis, formal	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
theatrical(ity)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
tragedy/tragic'	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47