"The first evil those who are prone to……" — Plutarch

"The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing."

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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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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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