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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.
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Time is the soul of this world.
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Character is long-standing habit.
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Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.
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The wildest colts make the best horses.
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Character is simply habit long enough continued.
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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
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He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
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Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
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Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.
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From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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Prosperity is not just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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It is a difficult task Oh citizens to make speeches to the belly which has no ears.
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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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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
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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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The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
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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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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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Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.
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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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Themistocles said 'The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you my wife govern me; your son governs you.'
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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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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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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.'