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We 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.

Plutarch

May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
PLUTARCH

Impossible Man Myself
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
PLUTARCH

Evidence Love Trust
The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
PLUTARCH

Difficult God True
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.
PLUTARCH

Experience Knowledge Myself Strange True
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
PLUTARCH

Philosophy Soul Spiritual
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
PLUTARCH

Anger Man Power Savage
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.
PLUTARCH

Myself Thinking Young
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
PLUTARCH

Deep Friendship Struggle
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
PLUTARCH

Regret Remember Talk
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PLUTARCH

Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
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.
PLUTARCH

Evil Live Man Victim
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
PLUTARCH

Fire Light Mindset
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
PLUTARCH

Change Deep Friendship Myself
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
PLUTARCH

Philosophy Togetherness
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
PLUTARCH

Courage Oneself Philosophy
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.
PLUTARCH

Future Man Mistake Power Wisdom

We 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.

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We 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.

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