"I would rather excel in the knowledge of……" — Plutarch

"I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions."

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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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More Excel Quotes

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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men… — Aristotle
Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel. — Mary Kay Ash
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of… — Joseph Addison
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. — Andre Breton
If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal… — Benjamin Carson
No crime is so great as daring to excel. — Winston Churchill
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I strongly recommend that students with autism get involved in special interest clubs in some of the areas they naturally… — Temple Grandin
Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.... — Janet Morris
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art,… — Charles Caleb Colton
Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice,… — Frank Robinson
Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling. — Gabrielle Reece

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