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«A 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.»
«It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors»
«Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.»
«Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges,»
«Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye. We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please.»
«The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.»
Author: Plutarch (Author, Biographer) | Keywords: prone, The First Evil
«Reason speaks and feeling bites»
Author: Plutarch (Author, Biographer) | About: Reason | Keywords: bites
«Character is simply habit long continued.»
Author: Plutarch (Author, Biographer) | About: Character | Keywords: continued
«We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature»
Author: Plutarch (Author, Biographer) | Keywords: custom, sensible
«Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.»

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