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Plutarch has 213 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
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For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it…
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It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
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The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as…
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The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
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It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
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We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
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Custom is almost a second nature.
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Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
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There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
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Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
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The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
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If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat.…
— Plutarch
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and…
— Robert Burns
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth
— Boris Pasternak
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The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but…
— Jane Porter
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Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do…
— Franz Schubert
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Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.
— Steven Levitt
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Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago.…
— Seth Shostak
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Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding…
— Derrick Jensen
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