Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
PLUTARCHProsperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
More Plutarch Quotes
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Come and take them.
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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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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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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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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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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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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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