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Good 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,…
- It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
- Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
- Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
- Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered…
- Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools,…
- Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered…
- A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but also when they are old and past…
- I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.
- 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…
- To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
- To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the…
- It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
- The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
- Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what…
- The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
- To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle