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Plutarch Inspirational Quotes (236)

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Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?
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Either is both, and Both is neither.
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Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon? Antagoras replied, Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?
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The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
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What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.
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For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.
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Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.
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As Meander says, For our mind is God and as Heraclitus, Man's genius is a deity.
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Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.
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Nature without learning is like a blind man learning without Nature, like a maimed one practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.
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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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Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Pittacus said, Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine and he is very happy who hath this only.
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Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
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Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. They are tall, said he, and comely, but bear no fruit.
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Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
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We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
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Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.
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Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
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When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, I would accept it, said Parmenio, were I Alexander. And so truly would I, said Alexander, if I were Parmenio. But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.
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They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.
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