Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
PLUTARCHEvidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
More Plutarch Quotes
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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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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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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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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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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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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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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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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