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We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

Done, Tradition, Sensible

Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me

Advice, Way, Mines

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Adversity, Men, Prosperity

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Time, Men, Meditation

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.29

A healer of others, himself diseased.

Healer, Diseased

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

Merit, Praise, Greedy

He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

Fighting, Sheep, Decision

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.

Hands, Bird, Fool

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.229

Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

Answers, Speech

Plutarch (1872). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.491

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

Atheist, Believe, Men

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

Men, Awkward, Thyme

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

Luxury, Mind, Use

Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.280, Cosimo, Inc.

To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

Matter, Faults, Human Nature

Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.246, 谷月社

The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.

Talking, Evil, Firsts

A fool cannot hold his tongue.

Tongue, Fool

Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.383

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Life, Success, Courage

Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.

War, Law, Noise

"Life of Caius Marius". Reported in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," 10th ed., 1919.

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

Able, Made, Disgrace

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.72

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

Inspirational, Life, Meditation

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Fate, Destiny, Drag

The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.

Mind, Add, Dignity

Plutarch (1803). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.121

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

Teacher, Nature, Men

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

Friendship, Character, Uniforms

Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

Silence, Tongue, Remember

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.257

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