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.
PLUTARCHThe 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.
PLUTARCHMusic, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
PLUTARCHTo 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.
PLUTARCHAn imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
PLUTARCHIt is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
PLUTARCHA mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
PLUTARCHI don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
PLUTARCHCourage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
PLUTARCHAdversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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.
PLUTARCHEvidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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.
PLUTARCHAll 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.
PLUTARCHThe whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
PLUTARCHIn 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.
PLUTARCHThe poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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