Painting is silent poetry.
PLUTARCHRather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
More Plutarch Quotes
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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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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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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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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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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 is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Character is simply a habit long continued.
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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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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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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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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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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Come and take them.
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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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 truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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