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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 (Plutarch Quotes)
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors (Plutarch Quotes)
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt (Plutarch Quotes)
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them (Plutarch Quotes)
Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord (Plutarch Quotes)
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large (Plutarch Quotes)
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune (Plutarch Quotes)
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity (Plutarch Quotes)
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little (Plutarch Quotes)
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits (Plutarch Quotes)
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days (Plutarch Quotes)
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away (Plutarch Quotes)
The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections (Plutarch Quotes)
Thus they let their anger and fury take from them the sense of humanity, and demonstrated that no beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage (Plutarch Quotes)
Themistocles said that he certainly could not make use of any stringed instrument; could only, were a small and obscure city put into his hands, make it great and glorious (Plutarch Quotes)
When he was in great prosperity, and courted by many, seeing himself splendidly served at his table, he turned to his children and said: Children, we had been undone, if we had not been undone (Plutarch Quotes)
A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail (Plutarch Quotes)
These are the materials for reflection which history affords to those who choose to make use of them (Plutarch Quotes)
It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper (Plutarch Quotes)
Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous (Plutarch Quotes)
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty (Plutarch Quotes)
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well (Plutarch Quotes)
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education (Plutarch Quotes)
To sing the same tune, as the saying is, is in everything cloying and offensive; but men are generally pleased with variety (Plutarch Quotes)
Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping (Plutarch Quotes)
Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares (Plutarch Quotes)
Abstain from beans; that is, keep out of public offices, for anciently the choice of the officers of state was made by beans (Plutarch Quotes)
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose (Plutarch Quotes)
He that first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defense against a knave, was but an ill teacher, advising us to commit wickedness to secure ourselves (Plutarch Quotes)
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy (Plutarch Quotes)