"Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and……" — Plutarch

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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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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
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I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every… — Michele Bachmann
I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them… — Erykah Badu
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is… — James A. Baldwin
Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of… — Stanley Baldwin
All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you… — Christian Bale
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended… — Douglas Adams
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are… — Gerry Adams

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