Author Topic: ~ Plutarch Quotes ~  (Read 2337 times)

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Re: ~ Plutarch Quotes ~
« Reply #15 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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« Reply #16 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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« Reply #17 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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« Reply #18 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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« Reply #19 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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« Reply #20 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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« Reply #21 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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« Reply #22 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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« Reply #23 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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« Reply #24 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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Re: ~ Plutarch Quotes ~
« Reply #25 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.'