Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
PLUTARCHEvidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
PLUTARCHThe poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
PLUTARCHIt does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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.
PLUTARCHThe mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
PLUTARCHMany things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
PLUTARCHThe future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.
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.
PLUTARCHMay I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
PLUTARCHCourage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
PLUTARCHWe 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.
PLUTARCHMusic, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
PLUTARCHBut a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
PLUTARCHThose 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.
PLUTARCHDo not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
PLUTARCHNo beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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