"Hesiod might as well have kept his breath……" — Plutarch

"Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage."

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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 don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your… — Arthur Ashe
There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he… — Christian Bale
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. — Sarah Bernhardt
An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your… — Lisa Bonet
Calgary wins for my coldest New Year's Eve gig. That's when I learned Fahrenheit and Celsius cross at 40 below.… — Elayne Boosler
It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people… — Anthony Bourdain
His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks… — Anne Bronte
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of… — Gisele Bundchen
They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used… — Anne Campbell
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more. — Stokely Carmichael
It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying...… — Charisma Carpenter

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