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The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.


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CHLOE THURLOW Giving never diminishes the giver,but it puts him/her in a vantage position to continue giving.
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MARGO DEWKETT A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
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ERIC SAMUEL TIMM Love is to give, to give is to receive, and to receive is to Love.
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PLUTARCH Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
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PLUTARCH A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, Was she not chaste...
PLUTARCH To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good...
PLUTARCH Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
PLUTARCH But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of tha...
PLUTARCH Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
PLUTARCH To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
PLUTARCH To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is pa...
PLUTARCH The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it ...
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PLUTARCH Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
PLUTARCH Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead.
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PLUTARCH I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appeale...
PLUTARCH It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,--nay, it is...
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PLUTARCH For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
PLUTARCH . . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, ...
PLUTARCH Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
PLUTARCH Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
PLUTARCH He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was th...
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PLUTARCH A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it ...
PLUTARCH He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
PLUTARCH He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
PLUTARCH Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece.
PLUTARCH Time is the wisest of all counselors.
PLUTARCH The wildest colts only make the best horses.
PLUTARCH God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
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PLUTARCH Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was...
PLUTARCH A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you c...
PLUTARCH Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking ...
PLUTARCH Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
PLUTARCH Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
PLUTARCH The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
PLUTARCH It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration--nay, it is a...
PLUTARCH When the candles are out all women are fair.
PLUTARCH Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
PLUTARCH An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
PLUTARCH If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
PLUTARCH Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
PLUTARCH Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
PLUTARCH The wildest colts make the best horses.
PLUTARCH I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that muc...
PLUTARCH The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations a...
PLUTARCH The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
PLUTARCH No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
PLUTARCH Neither blame or praise yourself.
PLUTARCH To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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PLUTARCH The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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PLUTARCH The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
PLUTARCH In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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PLUTARCH For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
PLUTARCH An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
PLUTARCH It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
PLUTARCH So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
PLUTARCH No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
PLUTARCH Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
PLUTARCH As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that...
PLUTARCH Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's privat...
PLUTARCH The measure of a man is way he bears up under misfortune
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PLUTARCH Also the two-edged tongue of mighty Zeno, who, Say what one would, could argue it untrue
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PLUTARCH I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and posse...
PLUTARCH Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world
PLUTARCH As Caesar was at supper the discourse was of death - which sort was the best, "That," said he, "whic...
PLUTARCH When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "s...
PLUTARCH There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usage of man's...
PLUTARCH It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, nay, it is a...
PLUTARCH Reason speaks and feeling bites
PLUTARCH Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone.
PLUTARCH A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chas...
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PLUTARCH When the candles are out all women are fair
PLUTARCH Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they ar...
PLUTARCH Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
PLUTARCH What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?
PLUTARCH Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and might...
PLUTARCH He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself
PLUTARCH Abstain from beans.
PLUTARCH Character is long-standing habit.
PLUTARCH Themosticles said "The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me;...
PLUTARCH His thrust, however, was somewhat feeble, owing to the inflammation in his hand,
PLUTARCH Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by spe...
PLUTARCH The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds
PLUTARCH But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of tha...
PLUTARCH we ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in eit...
PLUTARCH The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not sp...
PLUTARCH Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must tak...
PLUTARCH Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neg...
PLUTARCH It is better to have no opinion of God at all than such as one as is unworthy of him; for the one is...
PLUTARCH Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny
PLUTARCH A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech
PLUTARCH God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse
PLUTARCH In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker
PLUTARCH The wildest colts make the best horses
PLUTARCH If you live with a cripple, you will learn to limp
PLUTARCH Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is advers...
PLUTARCH It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors
PLUTARCH A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
PLUTARCH If all the world were just, there would be no need of valor
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PLUTARCH [Theseus] soon found himself involved in factions and troubles; those who long had hated him had now...
PLUTARCH Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield
themselves up when taken litt...
PLUTARCH In Springtime, O Dionysos,
To thy holy temple come,
To Elis with thy Graces,
Rushing ...
PLUTARCH Menestheus, the son of Peteus, grandson of Orneus, and the great-grandson to Erechtheus, the first m...
PLUTARCH The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch fou...
PLUTARCH I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
PLUTARCH For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not...
PLUTARCH Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder...
PLUTARCH The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbe...
PLUTARCH A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk’s bill, no...
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