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• Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

  Plutarch

  Happiness, Happy, Speak Less

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• Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

  Plutarch

  Envy, Soul, Disorder

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• Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores
  You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me

  Plutarch

  Advice, Way, Mines

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• Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

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  Merit, Praise, Greedy

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• A healer of others, himself diseased.

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  Healer, Diseased

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• Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.

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  War, Law, Noise

  "Life of Caius Marius". Reported in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," 10th ed., 1919.

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• He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

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  Fighting, Sheep, Decision

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• As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

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  Men, Awkward, Thyme

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• The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

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  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

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

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• Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

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  Wisdom, Gold, Wealth

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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• Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

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  Answers, Speech

  Plutarch (1872). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.491

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• A fool cannot hold his tongue.

  Plutarch

  Tongue, Fool

  Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.383

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• The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.

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  Talking, Evil, Firsts

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• It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.

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  Real, Character, Men

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• Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

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  Luxury, Mind, Use

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.280, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.

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  Hands, Bird, Fool

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.229

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• Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

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  Fate, Destiny, Drag

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• To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

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  Matter, Faults, Human Nature

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.246, 谷月社

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• Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

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  Inspirational, Life, Meditation

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• Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

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  Life, Success, Courage

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• The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

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  Atheist, Believe, Men

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• Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

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  Friendship, Character, Uniforms

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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• Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

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  Silence, Tongue, Remember

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.257

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• Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.

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  Running, Peace, Mean

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