"The whole life of man is but a……" — Plutarch
"The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose."
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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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