The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
PLUTARCHNeither blame nor praise yourself.
More Plutarch Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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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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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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 words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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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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I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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