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Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed.

Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.

Running, Peace, Mean

I see the cure is not worth the pain.

Pain, Cures

Plutarch (1822). “Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch”, p.245

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

Time, Soul, World

Platonic Questions, VIII, 4. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.

Gone, Firsts, Intellect

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

Evil, Remove, Knows

Character is inured habit.

Character, Habit

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

Usual, Envious, Consolation

A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.

Thankful, Dog, Horse

"Plutarch's Lives".

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.

Circumstances, Wells

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

Envy, Pleasure, Advantage

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

Bird, Righteous, Vulture

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

Wisdom, Gold, Wealth

Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.

Real, Character, Men

He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.

Thinking, Enemy, Littles

'Parallel Lives' 'Lysander' ch. 8.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Wise, Learning, Men

Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.461, 谷月社

The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

Friends, Pain, True Friend

Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

Divine, Lost, Incredulity

Plutarch (2010). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.190, Cosimo, Inc.

When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.

Son, Men, Riches

Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses."

Rage, Said, Athenians

"Life of Phocion". Book by Plutarch. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

Philosophy is the art of living.

Art, Philosophy, Art Of Living

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

Water, Principles, Elements

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

Life, Nature, Shoes

"Life of Cato the Censor" by Plutarch, 1st century.

If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

Kings, Prayer, Wall

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Inspiring, Sports, Perseverance

Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1870). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.6, Boston : Little, Brown

Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.

Love Is, And Love, Love And Trust

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