"Rest: the sweet sauce of labor" — Plutarch
"Rest: the sweet sauce of labor"
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Plutarch
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204 Quotes by Plutarch
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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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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in…
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work…
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to…
— Warren Beatty
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
— Max Beerbohm
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We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the…
— Carol Bellamy
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Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the…
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I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to…
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How…
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