It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
PLUTARCHI am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
More Plutarch Quotes
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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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A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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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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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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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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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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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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It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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