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Plutarch Inspirational Quotes (236)

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To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
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As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.
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As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.
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Prosperity is no just scale adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
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Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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I am whatever was, or is, or will be and my veil no mortal ever took up.
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Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?
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Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.
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He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good
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That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.
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Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
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Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.
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Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.
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Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.
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Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
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Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
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When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, I'll lay my life, said he, somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'
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To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, My nobility, said he, begins in me, but yours ends in you.
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Character is long-standing habit.
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There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
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Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. We are the only women who raise men, the Spartan lady replied.
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Philosophy is the art of living.
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