Plutarch Quotes

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

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• I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

  

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• Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.

  

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• Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.

  

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• There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.

  

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• The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

  

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• When thinking about starting a business, I think it’s actually better to start in a trough and come to market in a peak, than the other way around. Frankly, if anything does, and it’s almost cliche, space has a long-term future.

  

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• It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

  

  Plutarch
  • Virtue
  • Superior
  • Admirer