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Letter "P" » Plutarch Quotes
«No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.»
«The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
benefits, bounties, destroyer, donation, liberties, spreads, spread over, The Bounty, The Destroyers
«If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.»
«If all the world were just, there would be no need of valor»
«When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, ''Action, Action, Action.''»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
answered, aspects, Demosthenes, oratory, The three
«He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself»
«All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.»
«It is better to have no opinion of God at all than such as one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only unbelief - the other is contempt»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
contempt, such as, unbelief, unworthy, unworthy of
«Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone.»
«A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| About:
Vice
| Keywords:
darken, darkening, darkens, sufficient, vices
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