"What, did you not know, then, that to-day……" — Plutarch

"What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?"

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204 Quotes by Plutarch

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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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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can… — Hannah Arendt
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be… — Hannah Arendt
I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going… — Alexis Arguello
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short… — Aristotle
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to… — Aristotle
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People… — Paul Auster
I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less… — Paul Auster
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong

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