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Plutarch Inspirational Quotes (236)

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The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made for they are the substantial part of the world like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
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Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.
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When the candles are out all women are fair.
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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.
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The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.
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The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.
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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
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I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.
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That proverbial saying, Ill news goes quick and far.
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...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage
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Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.
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What can they suffer that do not fear to die?
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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.
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The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.
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Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.
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Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
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And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, I have found it! Eureka!.
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The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
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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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He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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.
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