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.
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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The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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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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They insist upon the shaving of the mustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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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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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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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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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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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