Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PLUTARCHCourage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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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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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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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
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The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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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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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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