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Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Plutarch
Born: 46
Died: 127 (aged 81)
Bio: Plutarch was a Greek historian, biographer and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He is classified as a Middle Platonist. Plutarch's surviving works are believed to have been originally written in Koine Greek.
Known for:
- Parallel Lives
- The Fall of the Roman Republic
- On Sparta
- The age of Alexander
- Makers of Rome, nine lives
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