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Letter "P" » Plutarch Quotes
«Rest: the sweet sauce of labor»
«Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
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adversities, adversity, balance, balancing, prosperity, scale, scaled, scaling, weigh, weighing
«Socrates said, Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live»
«Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
consists, hazarding, Just Cause, minded, resolutely, without fear
«In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| About:
Words
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disposition, speaker, Speaker of, state of mind, The State
«Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
discord, discords, examine, investigate, investigated, investigates, investigating, medicine, music to
«Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.»
«Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
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contented, depart, heap, misfortunes, portion, Socrates, whence
«When the candles are out all women are fair»
«Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.»
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