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To: Ilaine who wrote (29866)	2/1/1999 10:27:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I think Nietzche was forced into existence by the hypocrisy of the Victorians of every country. He despised German culture, admired the French, and had a very strange private life. Much of what we know of him was butchered by his sister. Clearly he wanted man to rise above the simpering cowardice that he noticed all around him. Plutarch is wonderful, is he not? His Moralia endless as it is is only matched by his Parallel Lives where he teaches by example. My childhood was spent (the valuable part of it) reading a series of hundreds of yellow-backed books by Jacob Abbott which I picked out of a moving fire barrel and carried home in my wagon. I later found they were slightly stuffed translations of Plutarch and other classics-- lucky me. My favorite was Alexander and I took his warnings to heart. I'm sure I would have handled the role of world conqueror better than A because of Plutarch's good advice. I think you would love Epictetus (the Diatribae not the Manual) you can get it (in two volumes) at Amazon in the Loeb series which has the Greek handy on the left hand side. His psychiatry and ethics is the most advanced of all the ancients. It really works and changes peoples lives for good even today. A hard discipline though. As for Christians and Jews, they are usually taught not to rely on themselves, but on God, but surely many of them take the braver, more effectual part of self-reliance.