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• The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

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  Omission, Evil, Wickedness

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• We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

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  Done, Tradition, Sensible

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

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• The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

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  Life, Men, Measure Of A Man

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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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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• It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

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  Learning, Men, Lame

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "The Education of Children",

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• Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

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  Philosophy, Talking, People

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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• Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

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  Envy, Soul, Disorder

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• Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.

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  Listening, Foundation

  Plutarch (2006). “Essays”, p.70, Penguin UK

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• As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

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  Men, Awkward, Thyme

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• To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

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  May, Fault Finding, Faults

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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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• 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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  Want, Tongue, Fool

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.407

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• Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real

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  Real, Ignorance, Anticipation

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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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• Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!

  Plutarch

  Gratitude

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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.

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  Thinking, Technology, Mind

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.1913, Delphi Classics

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• Silence is an answer to a wise man.

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  Wise, Men, Silence

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.70

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• Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

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  Happiness, Happy, Speak Less

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• The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.

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  Perseverance, Fall, Stones

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• God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

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  God, Men, Brave

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.178

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• The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

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  God, Gratitude, Heart

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• Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

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  Anger, Doors, Mind

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• To please the many is to displease the wise.

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  Wise, Popularity, Please

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.14

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• Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.

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  Happiness, Easy, Habit

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• The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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