"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."
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"To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."
― Plutarch
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"For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human."
― Plutarch
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"It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything."
― Plutarch
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"Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well."
― Plutarch
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"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."
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"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."
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"Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage."
― Plutarch
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"The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education."
― Plutarch
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"Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield
themselves up when taken little by little."
― Plutarch
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"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause."
― Plutarch
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"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
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"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity."
― Plutarch
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"The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others."
― Plutarch
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"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."
― Plutarch
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"Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love."
― Plutarch
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"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."
― Plutarch
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"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."
― Plutarch
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"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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"Neither blame or praise yourself."
― Plutarch
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