"The man who first brought ruin upon the……" — Plutarch
"The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements."
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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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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the…
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their…
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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
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I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I…
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept…
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they…
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Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the…
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Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who…
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind,…
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