Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
PLUTARCHA mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
More Plutarch Quotes
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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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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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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 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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Painting is silent poetry.
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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 poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character is simply a habit long continued.
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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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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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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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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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