Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
PLUTARCHCharacter is simply a habit long continued.
More Plutarch Quotes
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They insist upon the shaving of the mustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters.
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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.
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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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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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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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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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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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Even those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.
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Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.
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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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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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