It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
PLUTARCH
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
More Plutarch Quotes
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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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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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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
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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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A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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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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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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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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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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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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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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