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To please the many is to displease the wise.
Plutarch
If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.
Plutarch
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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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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For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.
Plutarch
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch
Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
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The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
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There were two brothers called Both and Either perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, Either is both, and Both is neither.
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The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
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Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
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It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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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
Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.
Plutarch
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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What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.
Plutarch
Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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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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Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.
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