Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PLUTARCHA few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
More Plutarch Quotes
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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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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 is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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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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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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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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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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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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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 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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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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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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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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