Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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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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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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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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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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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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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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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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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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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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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