Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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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All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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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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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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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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Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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