"He who reflects on another man's want of……" — Plutarch
"He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself"
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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 Breeding Quotes
This quote is filed under Breeding Quotes,
one of 174 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
— Joseph Addison
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or…
— Van Wyck Brooks
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The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
— Luther Burbank
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than…
— Thomas Carlyle
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
— Lord Chesterfield
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and…
— William Penn
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Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.
— Jeffrey Sachs
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Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like…
— Jean Anouilh
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