"Rest: the sweet sauce of labor" — Plutarch

"Rest: the sweet sauce of labor"

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

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