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To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
Plutarch
Painting is silent poetry.
Plutarch
Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
Plutarch
He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.
Plutarch
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Plutarch
A soldier told Pelopidas, We are fallen among the enemies. Said he, How are we fallen among them more than they among us?
Plutarch
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Plutarch
When the candles are out all women are fair.
Plutarch
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.
Plutarch
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
Plutarch
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.
Plutarch
Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.
Plutarch
He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
Plutarch
There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.
Plutarch
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
Plutarch
He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.
Plutarch
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, This is a wonderful speech, said he but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.
Plutarch
As Meander says, For our mind is God and as Heraclitus, Man's genius is a deity.
Plutarch
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.
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