Plutarch Quotes

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

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A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech

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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

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

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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

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A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech

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Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

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Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

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The first destroyer of the liberties of a people is he who first gave them bounties and largess

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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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The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

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It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

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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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