Character is simply a habit long continued.
PLUTARCHA mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
More Plutarch Quotes
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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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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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 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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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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It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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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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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.
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