Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
PLUTARCHIt is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
More Plutarch Quotes
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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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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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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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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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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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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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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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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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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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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