"The measure of a man's life is the……" — Plutarch
"The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length."
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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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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of…
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him.…
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing…
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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
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