Often Carried Quotes by Plutarch

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Plutarch has 213 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
• For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it…
• It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
• The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as…
• The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
• It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
• We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
• Custom is almost a second nature.
• Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
• There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
• Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
• The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

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