Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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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Come and take them.
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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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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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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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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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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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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The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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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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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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Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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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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