521 Quotes by Plutarch

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    Come back with your shield - or on it.

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    He can never speak well, who knows not how to hold his peace.

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    If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

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    You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me.

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    ...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.

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    What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel.

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    Boys throw stones at frogs for fun. but the frogs don't die for 'fun', but in sober earnest.

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    Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny

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