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He was compelled to abdicate, and when a man said to him, ‘What help have Plato and philosophy [p. 37] given to you ?’ his answer was : ‘The power to submit to so great a change of fortune without repining.1 ’
1 Cf. Plutarch, Life of Timoleon, chap. xv. (243 A).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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