Plutarch Quotes

• Neither blame or praise yourself.

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• Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men’s private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

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• Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

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• Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

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• Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

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• It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief – the other contempt.

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• It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

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• In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

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• If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

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• For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

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• Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

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• Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

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• Character is simply habit long continued.

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• Character is long-standing habit.

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• All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

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• A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

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• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

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• Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.

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

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