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«Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| About:
Perseverance
| Keywords:
perseverance, prevailing, yield
«Neither blame or praise yourself.»
«A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| About:
Communication,
Silence,
Speech
| Keywords:
sage, sager, timely
«The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.»
«We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
belongings, creatures, household, shoes, throw, thrown-away, throw away, wear away, worn
«Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| About:
Memory
| Keywords:
gone by, performs, preserving, storing, wonders
«Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| About:
Satisfaction
| Keywords:
beneficial, care for, obscurities, obscurity, pleased, poverty, so far
«Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.»
«The measure of a man is way he bears up under misfortune»
«The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
cultivated, produces, rankest, richest, soil, weeds
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