A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
PLUTARCHMay I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
More Plutarch Quotes
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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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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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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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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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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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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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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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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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