"Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow." — Plutarch
"Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow."
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Plutarch
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204 Quotes by Plutarch
Plutarch has 204 quotes on this site.
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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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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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More Continually Quotes
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in…
— Drew Barrymore
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United…
— Joe Barton
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Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory.…
— Evan Bayh
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance…
— John Berger
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The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in…
— Annie Besant
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to…
— Samuel Butler
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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
— Willa Cather
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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.
— Bernie Siegel
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