Plutarch Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.”
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“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”
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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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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
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“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
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“It is 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 it's place is a work extremely troublesome.”
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“Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.”
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“A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but also when they are old and past service.”
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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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“Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.”
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“For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.”
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“Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.”
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“The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.”
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“To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.”
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“Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.”
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“The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.”
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“It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.”
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“No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.”
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“Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.”
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“What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.”
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“It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.”
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“Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.”
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“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.”
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“The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.”
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“Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.”
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“...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage”
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“The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.”
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