Neither blame nor praise yourself.
PLUTARCHCourage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
More Plutarch Quotes
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It’s a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
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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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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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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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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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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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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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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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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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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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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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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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