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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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Character is simply a habit long continued.
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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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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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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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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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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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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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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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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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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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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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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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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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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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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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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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