Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
PLUTARCHEven those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.
More Plutarch Quotes
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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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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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 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 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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Painting is silent poetry.
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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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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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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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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Character is simply a habit long continued.
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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 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 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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