5 Quotes by Plutarch about firsts

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    He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

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    Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.

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    When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

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    Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.

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    After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered.

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