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• The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

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  Time, Men, Meditation

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.29

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• The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

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  Weed, Hard Work, Garden

  "Life of Caius Marcus Coriolanus" in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 897), 1922.

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

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  Done, Tradition, Sensible

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

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• God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

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  God, Men, Brave

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.178

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• Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

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  Knavery, Defense, Knaves

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "Of Bashfulness",

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• To please the many is to displease the wise.

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  Wise, Popularity, Please

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.14

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• Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!

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  Gratitude

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• It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

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  Learning, Men, Lame

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "The Education of Children",

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• The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

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  War, Fighting, Delight

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• To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

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  May, Fault Finding, Faults

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• For the wise man, every day is a festival.

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  Wise, Men, Festivals

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• Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

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  Philosophy, Talking, People

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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• A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

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  Reality, Vices, Virtue

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• It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is

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  Enemy, Important

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• Reason speaks and feeling bites

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  Feelings, Speak, Reason

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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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  Friendship, Divorce, Shoes

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.519, Modern Library

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• Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

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  Medicine, Today, Using Me

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• The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

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  Life, Men, Measure Of A Man

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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• The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.

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  Perseverance, Fall, Stones

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• The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

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  Omission, Evil, Wickedness

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• When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.

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  Special, Answers, Care

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• Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

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  Anger, Doors, Mind

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• Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

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  Adversity, Men, Prosperity

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• Silence is an answer to a wise man.

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  Wise, Men, Silence

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.70

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• Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.

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  Wise, Healing, Fighting

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