Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
PLUTARCHCome and take them.
More Plutarch Quotes
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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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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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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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The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.
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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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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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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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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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