An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
PLUTARCHCharacter is simply a habit long continued.
More Plutarch Quotes
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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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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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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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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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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But 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.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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It’s a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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