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.
PLUTARCHThe poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
More Plutarch Quotes
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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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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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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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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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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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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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 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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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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