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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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O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.
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Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that…
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Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in…
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Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round…
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Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.
— Plutarch
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The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the…
— Louis Aragon
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The overseer wouldna speak to me of Ian, but he told me other things that would curl your hair, if it wasna…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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