Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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.
More Plutarch Quotes
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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’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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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Come and take them.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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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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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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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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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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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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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