Supreme Function Quotes by Plutarch

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• It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
• Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered,…
• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing…
• This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest.…
• When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.
• There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every…
• Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults…
• Character is simply habit long continued.

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