"Come back with your shield - or on…" — Plutarch
"Come back with your shield - or on it"
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204 Quotes by Plutarch
Plutarch has 204 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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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More Come Back Quotes
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come…
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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
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I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a…
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I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard…
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And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back…
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If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.…
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Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and…
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When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think…
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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance…
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