To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
PLUTARCHAdversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
More Plutarch Quotes
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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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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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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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Come and take 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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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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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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A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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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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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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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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I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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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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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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