Plutarch quotes

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

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Character is long standing habit.

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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

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Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

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Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by, or rather, things that are.

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Learn to be pleased with everything,
with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others,
with poverty, for not having much to care for,
and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence, and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

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The whole life of man is but a point of time, let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

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A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech.

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The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

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If you live with a cripple, you will learn to limp.

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God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

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Medicine to produce health must examine disease,.

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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

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The measure of a man is way he bears up under misfortune.

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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

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Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart.

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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

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Neither blame or praise yourself.

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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod. My shadow does that much better.

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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity. Nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

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Rest, the sweet sauce of labor.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

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There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usage of man's life: "Know thyself," and "Nothing too much".
Upon these all other precepts depend.

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