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Firsts Quotes by Plutarch
- 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,…
- 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,…
- The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
- 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…
- Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.
- The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived.…
- The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
- Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
- When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was…
- He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a…
- Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
- I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with…
- The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are…
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