Plutarch Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Plutarch:
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
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It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
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Neither blame or praise yourself.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
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If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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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.
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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
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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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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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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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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
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The wildest colts make the best horses.
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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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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
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To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
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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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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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.
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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
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Character is long-standing habit.
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For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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