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.
PLUTARCHWe 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.
More Plutarch Quotes
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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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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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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Character is simply a habit long continued.
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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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Painting is silent poetry.
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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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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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I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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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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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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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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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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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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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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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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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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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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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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