SCRIPTURA

Philosophy

How to Profit by One’s Enemies · De capienda ex inimicis utilitate

Plutarch

Translated by John Hartcliffe, rev. William W. Goodwin

An enemy watches everything you do, so he can make you better than a friend would.

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  • Greek: ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0007.tlg072, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: John Hartcliffe, rev. William W. Goodwin, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0007.tlg072.perseus-eng4). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

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