It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
PLUTARCHIt is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
PLUTARCHA few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
PLUTARCHTo make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
PLUTARCHCharacter is simply a habit long continued.
PLUTARCHThe 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.
PLUTARCHThose 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.
PLUTARCHVultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
PLUTARCHThe truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
PLUTARCHIt is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
PLUTARCHTo find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
PLUTARCHBut 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.
PLUTARCHDo not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
PLUTARCHThe poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
PLUTARCHI am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
PLUTARCHRather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
PLUTARCHMany things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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