Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
PLUTARCHI don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
More Plutarch Quotes
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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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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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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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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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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 would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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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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 mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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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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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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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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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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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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Character is simply a habit long continued.
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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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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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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 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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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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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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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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