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Painting is silent poetry.

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
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Plutarch of Chaeronea
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So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.
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Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.
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There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.
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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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Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.
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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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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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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
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Character is inured habit.
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Prosperity is no just scale adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
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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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Agesilaus was very fond of his children and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.
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Demosthenes told Phocion, The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage. And you, said he, if they are once in their senses.
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Time is the wisest of all counselors.
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Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
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When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, A fool cannot hold his tongue.
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