Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
PLUTARCHThe future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.
More Plutarch Quotes
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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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Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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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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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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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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I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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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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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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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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The 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.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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They insist upon the shaving of the mustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters.
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