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82 - How to Tell a Flatterer From a Friend

Cost of Glory·Mar 1, 2024·31:01·pending

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...Plutarch offers some advice on how to choose your friends, and how to be a good one. Examples include Alexander the Great, Cato, Carneades, Plato, Dionysius the Tyrant, and more.

(Here depicted: the monument of Philopappus in Athens, to whom Plutarch's essay is dedicated)

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