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Men 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.
- 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…
- Silence is an answer to a wise man.
- We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
- I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
- For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
- 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.
- 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,…
- 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.
- 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,…
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