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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.
Plutarch in
Friendship
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch in
Poetry
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
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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
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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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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Plutarch
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
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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
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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Plutarch
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch
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