It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
PLUTARCHAdversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
More Plutarch Quotes
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Painting is silent poetry.
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Come and take them.
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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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Character is simply a habit long continued.
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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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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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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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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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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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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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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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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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