Plutarch Short Quotes

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When the candles are out all women are fair.

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Marius said, "I see the cure is not worth the pain."

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As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan.

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Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

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That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far."

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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

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The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.

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For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

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When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.

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There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

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Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.

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Everybody is himself his own foremost and greatest flatterer.

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Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.

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From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules."

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Did you not know, then, that today Lucullus sups with Lucullus?

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

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Euripides was wont to say, "Silence is an answer to a wise man."

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

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Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

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According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult.

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He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature.

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

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There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

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That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.

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Simonides calls painting silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting.

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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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Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

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

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Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."

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

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