Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
PLUTARCHCourage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
More Plutarch Quotes
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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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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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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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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Painting is silent poetry.
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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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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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I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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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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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
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Come and take them.
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