Come and take them.
PLUTARCHThe 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.
More Plutarch Quotes
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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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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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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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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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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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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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