"For fortune having hitherto seconded him in his designs, made him resolute and firm in his opinions, and the boldness of his temper raised a sort of passion in him for surmounting difficulties; as if it were not enough to be always victorious in the field, unless places and seasons and nature herself submitted to him."

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Plutarch was a Greek biographer, essayist, and philosopher best known for Parallel Lives. His writings strongly influenced later European biography, moral philosophy, and political thought.

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