The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
PLUTARCHThe whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
PLUTARCHNo beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
PLUTARCHMany things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
PLUTARCHTo 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.
PLUTARCHI don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
PLUTARCHEvidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
PLUTARCHBut 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.
PLUTARCHTo the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
PLUTARCHThe superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
PLUTARCHProsperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PLUTARCHCourage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
PLUTARCHMusic, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
PLUTARCHOf all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
PLUTARCHThe future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.
PLUTARCHThe 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.
PLUTARCHIn 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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