"The drop hollows out the stone not by……" — Plutarch
"The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling."
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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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More Constant Quotes
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to…
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
— Lynda Barry
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.…
— Samuel Beckett
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by…
— Joseph Addison
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To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular…
— Michael Bloomberg
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People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in…
— David Bohm
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.
— Richard Brautigan
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Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.
— Joyce Brothers
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That's gotta be the one remaining constant - jeans have gotta be tight, baby.
— Luke Bryan
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime…
— Albert Camus
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