Plutarch Quotes

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• Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
• For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to…
• It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
• The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible,…
• The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
• It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
• We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
• Custom is almost a second nature.
• Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
• There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
• Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
• The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
• No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
• Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
• But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life…
• An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
• Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some…
• When the candles are out all women are fair.
• When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
• If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however,…

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