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82 – How to Tell a Flatterer From a Friend

82 – How to Tell a Flatterer From a Friend

82 – How to Tell a Flatterer From a Friend

Episode Length: 31:01

82 – How to Tell a Flatterer From a Friend Episode Transcript

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Plutarch offers some advice on how to choose your friends, and how to be a good one.  Examples include Alexander the Great, Cato, Carneades, Plato, Dionysius the Tyrant, and more.

(Here depicted: the monument of Philopappus in Athens, to whom Plutarch’s essay is dedicated)