May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
PLUTARCHEvidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
More Plutarch Quotes
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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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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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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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.
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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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Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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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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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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