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The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

Plutarch
Inspirational, Funny, Life

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

Plutarch
Life, Men, Measure Of A Man
Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch
Life, Success, Courage

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

Plutarch
Inspirational, Life, Meditation

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

Plutarch
Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

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

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Plutarch
Life, Men, Childhood
Plutarch (1832). “Lives of the most select and illustrious characters of antiquity”, p.9

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

Plutarch
Life, Soul, Mistress
Plutarch (1834). “Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek; with Notes, Historical & Critical; & a Life of Plutarch”, p.222

Philosophy is an act of living.

Plutarch
Life, Philosophy, Live Life

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

Plutarch
Life, Animal, Light
Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

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.

Plutarch
Life, Men, Practice
Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.591, 谷月社

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch
Life, Change, Fate

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.

Plutarch
Life, Pain, Grief

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