Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
PLUTARCHMany things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
More Plutarch Quotes
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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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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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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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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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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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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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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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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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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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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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