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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.
Plutarch
Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
Plutarch
It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.
Plutarch
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.
Plutarch
Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion.
Plutarch
Pittacus said, Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine and he is very happy who hath this only.
Plutarch
Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
Plutarch
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Plutarch
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Plutarch
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
Plutarch
Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.
Plutarch
Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.
Plutarch
God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.
Plutarch
To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, Prithee, said Cleomenes, give me cocks that will kill fighting.
Plutarch
To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
Plutarch
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.
Plutarch
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
Plutarch
The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors
Plutarch
Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
Plutarch
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
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