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• Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores
  You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me

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  Advice, Way, Mines

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• Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

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  Life, Success, Courage

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• Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.

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  Running, Peace, Mean

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• Character is inured habit.

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  Character, Habit

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• Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

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  Silence, Tongue, Remember

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.257

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• To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

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  Matter, Faults, Human Nature

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.246, 谷月社

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• He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.

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  Hands, Bird, Fool

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.229

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• Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

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  Answers, Speech

  Plutarch (1872). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.491

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• The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

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  Evil, Remove, Knows

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• Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

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  Wise, Adversity, Men

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.1986, Delphi Classics

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• I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being: who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, perception and with voice. …but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born in to the world to enjoy.

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  Men, Light, Voice

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• No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

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  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Plutarch (1906). “Essays & Miscellanies...”

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• Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

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  Friendship, Character, Uniforms

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

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• It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

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  Thinking, Virtue, Admirer

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• Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

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  Inspiring, Sports, Perseverance

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1870). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.6, Boston : Little, Brown

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• There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

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  Passion, Character, Power

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• Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.

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  War, Law, Noise

  "Life of Caius Marius". Reported in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," 10th ed., 1919.

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• It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

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  Work, Men, Criticism

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.448

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• Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

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  Divine, Lost, Incredulity

  Plutarch (2010). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.190, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

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  Kings, Prayer, Wall

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• We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

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  Life, Nature, Shoes

  "Life of Cato the Censor" by Plutarch, 1st century.

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• Philosophy is the art of living.

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  Art, Philosophy, Art Of Living

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• When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.

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  Son, Men, Riches

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• He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.

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  Thinking, Enemy, Littles

  'Parallel Lives' 'Lysander' ch. 8.

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• All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

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  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. "Of Superstition",

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