6 Quotes by Plutarch about thinking
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.
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He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.
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Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?
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If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
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I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.
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