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Plutarch10 quotes
The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. — PlutarchWhen the candles are out all women are fair. — Plutarch · 100It is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad. — Plutarch · 119This gives a great field for the flatterer in friendship, who finds a wonderful base of operations in our self-love, which makes each person his own first and greatest flatterer. — Plutarch · 100A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful? Holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me." — Plutarch · 119He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach. — PlutarchAll 10 quotes →