"Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an……" — Plutarch

"Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy."

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204 Quotes by Plutarch

Plutarch has 204 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create…
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must…
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
Custom is almost a second nature.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

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I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's… — Neil Armstrong
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new… — Darren Aronofsky
The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest… — Joe Baca
In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges… — Michelle Bachelet
Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge. — Michele Bachmann
I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into… — Kevin Bacon
I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films… — Amy Adams
I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on… — Amy Adams
It's always challenging when you're shooting a film. Shooting things out of order and keeping continuity on all levels is… — Amy Adams
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the… — James A. Baldwin
No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I… — Christian Bale
We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and… — Roy Barnes

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