Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
PLUTARCHMusic, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
More Plutarch Quotes
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Come and take them.
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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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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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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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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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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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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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Painting is silent poetry.
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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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Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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