I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
PLUTARCHCome and take them.
More Plutarch Quotes
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To 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.
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In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.
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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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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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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May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
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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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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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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 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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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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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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