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Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 5 of 6: Translated From the Original Greek, With Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch All the advantage that fortune can truly be airm cd to gain in her combats with the good and vir tuons is, the bringing upon them unjuft reproach and cenfure, inliead of the honour and efleem which are their due, and by that means lefi'ening the confi dence the world would have in their virtue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.