Plutarch Quotes

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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 in the margin…
• It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
• There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.
• Reason speaks and feeling bites
• 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,…
• Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
• Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
• Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face,…
• When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.
• A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line.
• Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.
• Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
• Words will build no walls.
• To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
• Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.
• The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and…
• Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
• What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance,…
• He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
• Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

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