Quotes by Plutarch

Old to grow, but ever learning.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

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The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

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When the candles are out all women are fair.

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This gives a great field for the flatterer in friendship, who finds a wonderful base of operations in our self-love, which makes each person his own first and greatest flatterer.

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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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Written laws are like spiders’ webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

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It is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad.

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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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Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, But we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

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