To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
PLUTARCHThe whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
More Plutarch Quotes
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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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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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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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Come and take 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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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
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A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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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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