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Wise Quotes by Plutarch
- It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
- 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,…
- Silence is an answer to a wise man.
- For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
- Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
- Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.
- The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action…
- To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the…
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