An idea from Parallel Lives

A flute teacher would take his students to hear a bad player as well as a good one. Bad lives teach the same way. Demetrius and Antony are set side by side as warnings, proof of Plato’s saying that “great natures produce great vices as well as virtues.”

From Parallel Lives by Plutarch

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