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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.
Plutarch
Neither blame or praise yourself.
Plutarch
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Plutarch
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Plutarch
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
Plutarch
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
Plutarch
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch
The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Plutarch
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Plutarch
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
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
Plutarch
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Plutarch
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
Plutarch
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