True friendship a thing of rare occurrence, 464. In the early times, friends went in pairs, Orestes and Pylades, &c., 465. True friendship cannot embrace a multitude, 466. If we have numerous acquaintances, there should be one eminently a friend, 466. The requisites to a true friendship, 467. The difficulty of finding a true friend, 467. Be not hasty in getting friends, 468. Admit none to your confidence without long and thorough trial, 468. As true friendship cements two hearts into one, so a large acquaintance divides and distracts the heart, 469. We cannot discharge the obligations of friendship to a multitude, 470; therefore do not attempt it, 471. Joining one’s self intimately to another involves one in his calamities, 472. Real friendship always has its origin in likeness, even in brutes, 472. There must be a substantial oneness, 473. Therefore it is next to a miracle to find a constant and sure friend, 474. CONCERNING THE FORTUNE OR VIRTUE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. BY JOHN PHILIPS, GENT. Did he receive his empire as the gift of Fortune? By no means, 475. It was acquired at the expense of many severe wounds, 476, 507; of many hardships and much daring, 477; as the issue of his training under Aristotle, 478. He was himself a great philosopher, 479. He was the great civilizer of Asia, 480. He realized the dreams of philosophers by making the world his country, 481. Uniting the Greeks and the barbarians, 482. Gaining the affection of the vanquished, 483. Aiming to establish universal brotherhood, 484. His philosophy as exhibited in his recorded sayings, 485-489. His generous conduct, 490. His patronage of learned men, 491. So different from other monarchs, 492. His magnanimity, 495. Such a man owes little to Fortune, 496. Contrasted with Sardanapalus, 497. His greatness as seen in the confusion which followed his death, 498. Fortune cannot make an Alexander, 499. His silly imitators attest his greatness, 501. His self-government, 502. The Persian empire was overthrown, not by Fortune, but by the superior genius and virtue of Alexander, 503. Alexander owed nothing to Fortune, 506. His wisdom, his prowess, his many wounds, his constancy and energy, procured his great success, 507-511. Compared with the ablest men of antiquity, he is superior to all, 512, 513. His daring courage, great dangers, and marvellous escape, while besieging a town of the Oxydracae, 513-516. INDEX PLUTARCH’S MORALS. VOL. I. PLUTARCH’S MORALS. A DISCOURSE TOUCHING THE TRAINING OF CHILDREN. 1. The course which ought to be taken for the training of free-born children, and the means whereby their manners may be rendered virtuous, will, with the reader’s leave, be the subject of our present disquisition.