"Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind,……" — Plutarch

"Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures."

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204 Quotes by Plutarch

Plutarch has 204 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create…
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must…
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
Custom is almost a second nature.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of… — Aristotle
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between… — Hans Bender
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. — Mortimer Adler
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator. — Richard Branson
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar… — John Jay Chapman
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,… — C.S. Lewis
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either… — Samuel Johnson
They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness. — Sun Tzu
When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in… — Sun Tzu
Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be… — Joseph Hall
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. — Karl Pearson
Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with… — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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