Even those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.
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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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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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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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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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Character is simply a habit long continued.
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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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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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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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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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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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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Come and take them.
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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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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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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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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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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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