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I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing (Plutarch Quotes)
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things (Plutarch Quotes)
I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is (Plutarch Quotes)
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting (Plutarch Quotes)
Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world with contempt; but a truly noble spirit appears greatest in distress; (Plutarch Quotes)
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp (Plutarch Quotes)
Learn to be pleased with everything... because it could always be worse, but isn’t! (Plutarch Quotes)
When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself (Plutarch Quotes)
Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue (Plutarch Quotes)
Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall (Plutarch Quotes)
Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants? (Plutarch Quotes)
If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you (Plutarch Quotes)
There is no stronger test of a person’s character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice (Plutarch Quotes)
They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in view, something which leaves off as soon as that end is reached. It is not a public chore, to be got over with. It is a way of life. It is the life of a domesticated political and social creature who is born with a love for public life, with a desire for honor, with a feeling for his fellows; and it lasts as long as need be (Plutarch Quotes)
Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment (Plutarch Quotes)
It is not the most distinguished achievements that men’s virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person’s real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles (Plutarch Quotes)
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die (Plutarch Quotes)
It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results (Plutarch Quotes)
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men (Plutarch Quotes)
... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science (Plutarch Quotes)
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn a limp (Plutarch Quotes)
Where the lion’s skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox’s (Plutarch Quotes)
In their declamations and speeches they made use of words to veil and muffle their design (Plutarch Quotes)
When two discourse, if the one’s anger rise, the man who lets the contest fall is wise (Plutarch Quotes)
Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of enmity, mentions this in particular, that by the reproaches which it casts upon us, we see the worst side of ourselves (Plutarch Quotes)
Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies (Plutarch Quotes)
Plutarch would rather we should applaud his judgment than commend his knowledge, and would rather leave us with an appetite to read more than glutted with that we have already read (Plutarch Quotes)
From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra’s irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages including, as he puts it, the language of flattery and essentially, to be able to turn people to her will - really a great political genius, in that respect (Plutarch Quotes)
I look for the kind of text that doesn’t look like the writer I’m considering. Plutarch is a great example. (Plutarch Quotes)