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Plutarch has 213 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
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For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it…
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It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
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The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as…
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The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
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It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
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We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
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Custom is almost a second nature.
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Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
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There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
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Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
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The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
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In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing…
— Plutarch
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Life is not stationary. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years all tick away at the same clip for everyone. No…
— Hugh W. Pinnock
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Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that…
— Jeanette Winterson
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From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Our outward appearance is a reflection of what we are on the inside. Our lives reflect that for which we seek. And…
— Margaret D. Nadauld
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You may not look so favourably on your outward appearance, but when God looks at you, He sees His beautiful daughter. While…
— Innah Delos Angeles
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Holiness is reflected in our outward actions. But it's not determined by our outward actions.
— John Hagee
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