Plutarch
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Plutarch
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.
Plutarch
Death and Dying
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Plutarch
Courage
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
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Change
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Courage
Abstain from beans.
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Food and Eating
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.
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Failure
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
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Fate
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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History and Historians
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
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Praise
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
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Integrity
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
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Mind
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Words
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
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Music
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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Perseverance
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
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Money
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
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Prosperity
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
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Respectability
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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Silence
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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Rest
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
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Speakers and Speaking
Time is the wisest of all counselors.
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Time and Time Management
To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
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Risk
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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Sleep
The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
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Purpose
Character is simply habit long continued.
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Character
The wildest colts make the best horses.
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Children
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
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Ancestry
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful? holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. Yet, added he, none of you can tell where it pinches me.
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Divorce
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
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Contentment
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Blame
They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [A Sheep].
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Applause
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
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Bargains
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.
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Action
Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
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Birth
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
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Adversity
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
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Achievement
Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
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Valor