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.
PLUTARCHEven those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.
More Plutarch Quotes
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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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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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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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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.
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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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Come and take them.
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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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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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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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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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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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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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