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• I see the cure is not worth the pain.

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  Pain, Cures

  Plutarch (1822). “Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch”, p.245

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• Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

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  Time, Soul, World

  Platonic Questions, VIII, 4. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

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  Struggle, Men, He Man

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• The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

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  Friends, Pain, True Friend

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

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• Philosophy is the art of living.

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  Art, Philosophy, Art Of Living

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• It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

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  Able, Made, Disgrace

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.72

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• Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

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  Teacher, Nature, Men

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• Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

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  Lying, Men, Vices

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• Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses."

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  Rage, Said, Athenians

  "Life of Phocion". Book by Plutarch. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.

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  Mind, Add, Dignity

  Plutarch (1803). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.121

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• Character is inured habit.

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  Character, Habit

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• A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.

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  Thankful, Dog, Horse

  "Plutarch's Lives".

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• Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

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  Bird, Righteous, Vulture

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• Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

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  Divine, Lost, Incredulity

  Plutarch (2010). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.190, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

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  Evil, Remove, Knows

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• When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.

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  Son, Men, Riches

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• Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.

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  Gone, Firsts, Intellect

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• He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.

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  Thinking, Enemy, Littles

  'Parallel Lives' 'Lysander' ch. 8.

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• He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.

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  Circumstances, Wells

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• Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

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  Wise, Learning, Men

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.461, 谷月社

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• It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

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  Usual, Envious, Consolation

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• Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

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  Envy, Pleasure, Advantage

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• God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

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  God, Needs, Want

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

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• If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

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  Kings, Prayer, Wall

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• Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

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  Inspiring, Sports, Perseverance

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1870). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.6, Boston : Little, Brown

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