Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.


Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's (ed. 1861)

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Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of...

Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of...

Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of...

Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of...