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Man Quotes by Plutarch
- The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
- No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
- The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these…
- 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…
- The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
- 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…
- Silence is an answer to a wise man.
- 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…
- It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
- 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,…
- The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived.…
- Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of…
- He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself
- The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action…
- God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
- I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.
- There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and…
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