I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
PLUTARCH
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
More Plutarch Quotes
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I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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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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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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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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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Come and take them.
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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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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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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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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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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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