7 Quotes by Plutarch about life
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There is nothing so imperfect, so helpless, so naked, so shapeless, so foul, as man observed at birth, to whom alone, one might almost say, Nature has given not a clean passage to the light; but, defiled with blood and covered with filth, and resembling more one just slain than one just born, he is an object for none to touch or lift up or kiss or embrace except for someone who loves with a natural affection.
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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.
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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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