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• Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

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  Wisdom, Gold, Wealth

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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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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• Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

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  Merit, Praise, Greedy

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• Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

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  Inspirational, Life, Meditation

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• He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

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  Fighting, Sheep, Decision

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• When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.

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  Special, Answers, Care

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• A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

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  Friendship, Divorce, Shoes

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.519, Modern Library

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• Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

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  Skins, Lions, Foxes

  Parallel Lives "Lysander" sec. 7 See Machiavelli 7

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• Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

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  Wise, Learning, Men

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.461, 谷月社

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• Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

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  Silence, Speech, Seasons

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

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• It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.

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  Real, Character, Men

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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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• The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.

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  Talking, Evil, Firsts

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• Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

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  Time, Soul, World

  Platonic Questions, VIII, 4. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.

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  Mind, Add, Dignity

  Plutarch (1803). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.121

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• The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

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  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

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

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• A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.

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  Thankful, Dog, Horse

  "Plutarch's Lives".

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• Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.

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  Wise, Healing, Fighting

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• Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

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  Understanding, Aging, Increase

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• Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.

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  Gone, Firsts, Intellect

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• Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

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  Bird, Righteous, Vulture

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• Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

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  Luxury, Mind, Use

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.280, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

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  Time, Men, Meditation

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.29

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• A healer of others, himself diseased.

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  Healer, Diseased

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• The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

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  Friends, Pain, True Friend

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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