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Plutarktos
 It is better to have no opinion of God at all than such as one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only unbelief - the other is contempt |
| It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors |
| It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. |
| It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others |
| Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. |
| 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. |
| Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. |
| Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. |
| Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are |
| Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. |
| Neither blame or praise yourself. |
| No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. |
| Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, |
| 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. |
| Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny |
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