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Plutarch
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Philosophy is the art of living.
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He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.
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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.
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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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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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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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Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.
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Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.
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Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
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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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Words will build no walls.
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Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
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A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, In silence.
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He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
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We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
Plutarch
Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.
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