Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
PLUTARCHVultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
More Plutarch Quotes
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Come and take them.
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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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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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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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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