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.
PLUTARCHEven those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.
PLUTARCHPainting is silent poetry.
PLUTARCHProsperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PLUTARCHIt is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
PLUTARCHAdversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PLUTARCHCome and take them.
PLUTARCHCourage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
PLUTARCHI would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
PLUTARCHThe future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.
PLUTARCHThe 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.
PLUTARCHA few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
PLUTARCHIn words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
PLUTARCHCourage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
PLUTARCHThe poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
PLUTARCHIt’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.
PLUTARCHCourage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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