A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
PLUTARCHMay I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
More Plutarch Quotes
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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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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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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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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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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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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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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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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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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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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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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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