"For to err in opinion, though it be……" — Plutarch
"For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human."
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Plutarch
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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 Err Quotes
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one of 188 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The wisest of the wise may err.
— Aeschylus
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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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They all err - Muslims, Christians, Jews and Magians. There are two kinds of humans - the intelligent, who have…
— Al-MaÊ¿arri
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Err in the direction of kindness.
— George Saunders
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Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
— Ovid
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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
— Franklin P. Adams
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When in doubt, err on the side of generosity.
— Ping Fu
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I am in the valley of prayer on the issue of gay marriage, and I will err on the side…
— Joseph Lowery
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We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.
— Roderick Murchison
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