Plutarch Quotes

• Though others before him had triumphed three times, Pompeius, by having gained his first triumph over Libya, his second over Europe, and this the last over Asia, seemed in a manner to have brought the whole world into his three triumphs.

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• He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.

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• What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

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• I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

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• Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

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• Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

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• Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

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• When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

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• We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

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• To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

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• To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

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• The wildest colts make the best horses.

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• The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

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• The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

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• The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

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• Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

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• Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

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• Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

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• Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

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• No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

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Nationality:	Greek
Profession:	Ambassador, Biographer, Essayist, Philosopher, Priest

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