Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
PLUTARCHCome and take them.
More Plutarch Quotes
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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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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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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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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 superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
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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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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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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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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The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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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