The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
PLUTARCHAdversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Come and take them.
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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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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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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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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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 superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
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