Plutarch

“Come and take them”

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Painting is silent poetry.

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A healer of others, himself diseased.

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Reason speaks and feeling bites

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Either is both, and Both is neither.

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I see the cure is not worth the pain.

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Silence is an answer to a wise man.

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The belly has no ears.

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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

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Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

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Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

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Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

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When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.

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Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it…

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The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

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Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

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The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

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I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.

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Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

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If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it…

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He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction…

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“When someone asked Demaratus why the Spartans disgrace those who throw away their shields but not those who abandon their breastplates or…

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As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes…

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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair?…

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The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more…

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He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion…

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For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his…

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It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should…

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“[The Spartans] ordered the maidens to exercise themselves with wrestling, running, throwing the quoit, and casting the dart, to the end that…

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“At last, he began to discourse of fortune and human affairs. "Is it meet," said he, "for him that knows he is…

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We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship;…

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“Such contentedness and change of view in regard to every kind of life does the infusion of reason bring about. When Alexander…

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“Antipater, in a letter written upon the death of Aristotle, the philosopher, observes, "Amongst his other gifts he had that of persuasiveness";…

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“When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they…

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They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some…

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