Plutarch Quotes

• Though others before him had triumphed three times, Pompeius, by having gained his first triumph over Libya, his second over Europe, and this the last over Asia, seemed in a manner to have brought the whole world into his three triumphs.

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• He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.

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• When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

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• What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

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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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• 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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• 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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• The wildest colts make the best horses.

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• The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

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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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• The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

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• Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

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• Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

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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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• Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

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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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• Neither blame or praise yourself.

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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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• Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

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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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Nationality:	Greek
Profession:	Ambassador, Biographer, Essayist, Philosopher, Priest

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