Plutarch Quotes

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• Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

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  Inspirational, Empathy, Advice

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• Barba non facit philosophum

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  Latin

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• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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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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  Friendship, Change, Philosophy

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• 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

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  Army, Play, Law Courts

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• What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

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  Motivational, Change, Positive

  Speech by J.K. Rowling at Harvard University, news.harvard.edu. June 05, 2008.

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• The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

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  Motivation, Crazy, Inspiration

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  An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

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  Freedom, Tyrants, Economic Inequality

  "When Inequality Isn't" by John Mauldin, www.forbes.com. March 29, 2014.

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• To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

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  Failure, Failing, Harm

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• The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

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  Uplifting, Adversity, Suffering

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• There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

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  Two, Oracles, Too Much

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• No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

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  Anger, Men, Savages

  Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives - Complete”, p.1137, Simon and Schuster

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• The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

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  Weed, Hard Work, Garden

  "Life of Caius Marcus Coriolanus" in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 897), 1922.

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• Time is the wisest of all counselors.

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  Time, Time Management, Counselor

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• For the wise man, every day is a festival.

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  Wise, Men, Festivals

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• The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

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  War, Fighting, Delight

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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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  Real, People, Democracy

  "Paul Ryan Echoes Ronald Reagan's Goldwater Presidential Campaign Speech" by Garance Franke-Ruta, www.theatlantic.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Character is simply habit long continued.

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  Perseverance, Character, Long

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• Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

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  Knavery, Defense, Knaves

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "Of Bashfulness",

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• If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

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  Hate, Hatred, Mind

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• Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

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  Medicine, Today, Using Me

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• A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

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  Reality, Vices, Virtue

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• A fool cannot hold his tongue.

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  Tongue, Fool

  Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.383

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• To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

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  Wise, Mistake, Character

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