Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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.
More Plutarch Quotes
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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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Those 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.
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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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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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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Come and take them.
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To 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.
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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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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Even those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.
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Character is simply a habit long continued.
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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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