May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
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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Painting is silent poetry.
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Even those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.
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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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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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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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But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Character is simply a habit long continued.
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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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