Plutarch Quotes

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• Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
• Come back with your shield - or on it
• For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
• Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
• That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.
• For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
• Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
• The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
• And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing…
• It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If…
• Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world…
• Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care…
• He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves
• A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth,…
• This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the…
• A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he,…
• A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not…
• Philosophy is an act of living.
• Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil…
• Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often…

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