Plutarch quotes - page 11

Far from the battle, on that fatal day
Beside Thermodon may I flee away,
Or view it as an eagle from the sky;
There shall the vanquished weep, the victor die. (Plutarch)

I myself had rather excel others in excellency of learning than in greatness of power.

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

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Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

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The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

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Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away. (Plutarch)

It is better to have no opinion of God at all than such as one as is unworthy of him for the one is only unbelief - the other is contempt.

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

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But those who are careless of accuracy in small things soon begin to neglect the most important.

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Dost thou, fair Sikyon, hesitate to raise A fitting tomb to thy lost hero's praise? Curst be the land, nay, curst the air or wave That grudges room for thy Aratus' grave.

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Rest gives relish to labour.

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Character is long-standing habit.

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By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?"

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When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer. (Technically a misquote, but I like the misquote better)

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By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?

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To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm. (Plutarch)

That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

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Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

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Lying is a most disgraceful vice it first despises God, And then fears men.

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Prosperity has this property it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world with contempt but a truly noble spirit appears greatest in distress and then becomes more bright and c.

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