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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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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Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
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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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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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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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A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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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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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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