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Category: Plutarch

12 December 2020 Plutarch

Character is simply habit long continued.

3 December 2020 Plutarch

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

3 December 2020 Plutarch

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

3 December 2020 Plutarch

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

3 December 2020 Plutarch

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

3 December 2020 Plutarch

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.

3 December 2020 Plutarch

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.

3 December 2020 Plutarch

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

3 December 2020 Plutarch

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

3 December 2020 Plutarch

The wildest colts make the best horses.

3 December 2020 Plutarch

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

3 December 2020 Plutarch

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

3 December 2020 Plutarch

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

3 December 2020 Plutarch

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

3 December 2020 Plutarch

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

3 December 2020 Plutarch

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

3 December 2020 Plutarch

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

3 December 2020 Plutarch

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

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