The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
PLUTARCHThe process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
More Plutarch Quotes
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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Come and take them.
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The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.
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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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The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.
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Those who receive with most pains and difficulty, remember best; every new think they learn, being, as it were, burnt and branded in on their minds.
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