"I confess myself the greatest coward in the……" — Plutarch
"I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing."
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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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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a…
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed…
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I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what…
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The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the…
— Tony Campolo
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
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In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I…
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher…
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