"When men are arrived at the goal, they…" — Plutarch
"When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back."
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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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Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.
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I leave from where the apostle arrived.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.
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