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Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them (Plutarch Quotes)
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless (Plutarch Quotes)
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others (Plutarch Quotes)
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad (Plutarch Quotes)
The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses (Plutarch Quotes)
Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara (Plutarch Quotes)
It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered (Plutarch Quotes)
Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action (Plutarch Quotes)
It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty (Plutarch Quotes)
Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers (Plutarch Quotes)
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, action, action, action (Plutarch Quotes)
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing (Plutarch Quotes)
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied (Plutarch Quotes)
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life (Plutarch Quotes)
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, cato, the elder, said, there is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life (Plutarch Quotes)
To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them (Plutarch Quotes)
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration - nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome (Plutarch Quotes)
For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words (Plutarch Quotes)
It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension (Plutarch Quotes)
Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position (Plutarch Quotes)
What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good (Plutarch Quotes)
Under the veil of these curious sentences are hid those germs of morals which the masters of philosophy have afterwards developed into so many volumes (Plutarch Quotes)
We must prune it with care, so as only to remove the redundant branches, and not injure the stem, which has its root in the generous sensitiveness to shame (Plutarch Quotes)
Cato the elder, when somebody was praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, said that there was an essential difference between a really brave man and one who had merely a contempt for life (Plutarch Quotes)
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious (Plutarch Quotes)
Thus the greater proportion of mankind are more sensitive to contemptuous language than unjust acts; for they can less easily bear insult than wrong (Plutarch Quotes)
He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war (Plutarch Quotes)
Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart (Plutarch Quotes)
When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion (Plutarch Quotes)
If nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect (Plutarch Quotes)