"Good birth is a fine thing, but the…" — Plutarch

"Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors."

204 Quotes by Plutarch

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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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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
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My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited. — Eric Cantona
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An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to… — Ernst Haeckel

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