Plutarch Quotes.

1. "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
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2. "I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."
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3. "A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk’s bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare. But if you will contend that you were born to an inclination to such food as you have now a mind to eat, do you then yourself kill what you would eat. But do it yourself, without the help of a chopping-knife, mallet or axe, as wolves, bears, and lions do, who kill and eat at once. Rend an ox with thy teeth, worry a hog with thy mouth, tear a lamb or a hare in pieces, and fall on and eat it alive as they do. But if thou had rather stay until what thou eat is to become dead, and if thou art loath to force a soul out of its body, why then dost thou against nature eat an animate thing? There is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing even as it is; so they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare."
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4. "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
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5. "To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."
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6. "Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."
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7. "The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others."
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8. "Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."
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9. "The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it."
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10. "To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."
- Quote by Plutarch