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Title: ~ Plutarch Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:08:56 AM
Plutarch Quotes

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A Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia.
Plutarch, born Plutarchos then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus,c. 46 – 120 CE/AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi.

Here are some famous quotes by  Plutarch.

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Words will build no walls.
Title: Re: ~ Plutarch Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:10:27 AM
Time is the soul of this world.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:10:52 AM
Character is long-standing habit.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:11:18 AM
Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:11:46 AM
The wildest colts make the best horses.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:12:11 AM
Character is simply habit long enough continued.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:12:47 AM
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:13:25 AM
He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:13:57 AM
Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:14:24 AM
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:15:25 AM
Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:16:10 AM
From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:16:51 AM
Prosperity is not just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:17:30 AM
It is a difficult task Oh citizens to make speeches to the belly which has no ears.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:18:03 AM
It is a hard matter my fellow citizens to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:18:37 AM
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:19:39 AM
No man ever wetted clay and then left it as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:20:06 AM
The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:20:36 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:21:05 AM
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:21:36 AM
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:22:08 AM
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:23:04 AM
Themistocles said 'The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you my wife govern me; your son governs you.'
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:23:59 AM
To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:24:32 AM
Agesilaus the Spartan king was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.
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Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2015, 10:25:09 AM
As to Caesar when he was called upon he gave no testimony against Clodius nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said 'He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime but of the very suspicion of it.'