Plutarch quotes

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. (Plutarch)
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. View quote
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Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit. View quote
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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. View quote
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. View quote
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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. View quote
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. View quote
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. View quote
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For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. View quote
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. View quote
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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. (Plutarch)
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. View quote
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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. View quote
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. View quote
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. View quote
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. View quote
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When the candles are out all women are fair. View quote
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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. View quote
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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. View quote
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Where the lions skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the foxs. View quote
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Said Scopas of Thessaly, 'We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.' (Plutarch)
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature. View quote
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Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. View quote
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So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history. View quote
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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. View quote
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