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Plutarch Quote: “Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.”
Plutarch Quote: “Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.”
Plutarch Quote: “The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. EOQ.”
Plutarch Quote: “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.”
Plutarch Quote: “The malicious humor of men, though perverse and refractory, is not so savage and invincible but it may be wrought upon by kindness, and altered by repeated obligations.”
Plutarch Quote: “It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.”
Plutarch Quote: “He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good.”
Plutarch Quote: “Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.”
Plutarch Quote: “Themistocles replied that a man’s discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.”
Plutarch Quote: “It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.”
Plutarch Quote: “There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.”
Plutarch Quote: “When someone blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time, Archidamidas answered in his vindication ‘He who knows how to speak, knows also when’.”
Plutarch Quote: “Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.”
Plutarch Quote: “The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.”
Plutarch Quote: “Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, “She can choose best,” and so took both away with him.”
Plutarch Quote: “Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others’.”
Plutarch Quote: “It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is.”
Plutarch Quote: “For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.”
Plutarch Quote: “There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.”
Plutarch Quote: “Demaratus, being asked in a troublesome manner by an importunate fellow, Who was the best man in Lacedaemon? answered at last, ‘He, Sir, that is the least like you’.”
Plutarch Quote: “A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.”
Plutarch Quote: “We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.”
Plutarch Quote: “Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.”
Plutarch Quote: “I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.”
Plutarch Quote: “He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.”
Plutarch Quote: “It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.”
Plutarch Quote: “Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.”
Plutarch Quote: “Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.”
Plutarch Quote: “What can they suffer that do not fear to die?”
Plutarch Quote: “The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.”
Plutarch Quote: “Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.”
Plutarch Quote: “Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.”
Plutarch Quote: “An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.”
Plutarch Quote: “Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.”
Plutarch Quote: “Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.”
Plutarch Quote: “They should live all together on an equal footing; merit to be their only road to eminence, and the disgrace of evil, and credit of worthy acts, their one measure of difference between man and man.”
Plutarch Quote: “Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.”
Plutarch Quote: “The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.”
Plutarch Quote: “They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.”
Plutarch Quote: “Over time events trickle out of the minds of forgetful, thoughtless people, and so, since they retain and conserve nothing, the empty space within them, that should be filled with good things, is filled instead with hopes, so that they neglect the present and look to the future, despite the fact that fortune may yet foil the future, whereas the present cannot be taken away.”
Plutarch Quote: “Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.”
Plutarch Quote: “It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.”
Plutarch Quote: “Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.”
Plutarch Quote: “Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.”
Plutarch Quote: “Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by – or rather, things that are.”
Plutarch Quote: “Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.”
Plutarch Quote: “The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.”
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