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Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.
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I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
Plutarch
That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.
Plutarch
Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
Plutarch
Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.
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God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Plutarch
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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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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What can they suffer that do not fear to die?
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Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.
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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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Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
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It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
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It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.
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Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.
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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.
Plutarch
Silence is an answer to a wise man.
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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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Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.
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