Quotes By Plutarch
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
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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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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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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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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
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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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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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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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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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