To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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 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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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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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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I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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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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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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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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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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