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.
PLUTARCHThe truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
More Plutarch Quotes
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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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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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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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But 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.
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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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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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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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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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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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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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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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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