Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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.
More Plutarch Quotes
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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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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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.
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I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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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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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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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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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Come and take them.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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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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