"The giving of riches and honors to a……" — Plutarch
"The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever."
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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 Fever Quotes
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me…
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down…
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Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving…
— Hugo Black
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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever.…
— Lord Byron
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining…
— Laurel Clark
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It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum…
— Hillary Clinton
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If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can,…
— Sam Walton
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In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than…
— Winston Churchill
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I also turn to homeopathic remedies for the treatment of indigestion, travel sickness, insomnia and hay fever just to name…
— Cindy Crawford
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The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable…
— Winston Churchill
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Lotto fever hit New York again this week, and like the old saying goes, 'You gotta be in it to…
— Dennis Miller
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