50+ Plutarch Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
PLUTARCH

Change Deep Friendship Myself
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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Difficult Easy Greatness Man Place Produce
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
PLUTARCH

Creation Deep Music
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
PLUTARCH

Advice Learning Live Man True
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
PLUTARCH

Enjoyment Man Time
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
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Enjoyment Man Trouble Vice Writing
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
PLUTARCH

Atheist Believe Fear God Man
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
PLUTARCH

Death Nation Rich
The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
PLUTARCH

Difficult God True
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.
PLUTARCH

Fantasy Season Talk Time Winter Word
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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Death Fight Rich War
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Literature Myself
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
PLUTARCH

Regret Remember Talk
The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.
PLUTARCH

Determination Future Oneself
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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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Future Man Mistake Power Wisdom
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
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.
PLUTARCH

Evil Live Man Victim
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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Experience Knowledge Myself Strange True

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