"Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we……" — Plutarch
"Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life."
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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 Ceasing Quotes
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The…
— Saint Augustine
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
— Andre Breton
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There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that…
— Eckhart Tolle
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To God your every Want In instant Prayer display, Pray always; Pray, and never faint; Pray, without ceasing, Pray.
— Charles Wesley
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Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego -…
— Adi Shankara
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We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a…
— Elizabeth Ann Seton
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And all of these together, as much as any campaign the Marine Corps has ever pursued, have brought an unrelenting,…
— Jim Webb
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The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger…
— Martin Luther
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For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such…
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
— Frederick Buechner
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Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation…
— Marcel Proust
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If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing…
— David Icke
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