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Quotes by Plutarch

"To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."
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"To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."
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"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."
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"No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage."
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"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."
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"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."
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"The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it."
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"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."
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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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"The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever."
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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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"In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker."
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"Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied."
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"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
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"Learn to be pleased with everything with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to"
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"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."
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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 th"
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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 fault"
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"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."
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"It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors."
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"An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave."
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"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves"
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"The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education."
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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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"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."
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