Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
PLUTARCHRemember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
More Plutarch Quotes
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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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The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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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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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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Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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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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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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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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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 mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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It’s a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
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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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May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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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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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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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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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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