It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
PLUTARCHThe truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
More Plutarch Quotes
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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We ought indeed to shrink from and feel shame at what is base, but nature which is over-cautious to avoid blame may be gentle and kindly, but cannot be great.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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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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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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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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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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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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A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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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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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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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy 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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