Painting is silent poetry.
PLUTARCHThey 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.
More Plutarch Quotes
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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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 superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
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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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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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Come and take them.
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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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