| The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. |
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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. |
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- Plutarch |
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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. |
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- Plutarch |
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| Painting is silent poetry. |
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- Plutarch |
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| The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. |
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- Plutarch |
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| All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. |
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- Plutarch |
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| The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. |
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- Plutarch |
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| Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. |
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- Plutarch |
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| It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears. |
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- Plutarch |
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| No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. |
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- Plutarch |
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