Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
PLUTARCHTo find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
More Plutarch Quotes
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
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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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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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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Come and take them.
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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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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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We ought indeed to shrink from and feel shame at what is base, but nature which is over-cautious to avoid blame may be gentle and kindly, but cannot be great.
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I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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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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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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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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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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