@stephenpetro411: The day before Charlotte Corday assassinated Jean-Paul Marat in 1793, she spent reading Plutarch's Lives. She wasn't alone. Napoleon called it his manual of rule. Washington modeled himself on its heroes so openly that contemporaries noticed. Shakespeare lifted whole passages from it for three plays. Written around 100 AD, it's a collection of biographies of history's most notable figures. What made it so powerful: it taught through lived example, not abstract principle — modeling how extraordinary people behaved under pressure. The same pages steeled Corday for murder and shaped how Washington led a nation. That's what a genuinely great book does. #History #GreatBooks #Philosophy

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