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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/5755/">Quotes by <em>Plutarch</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Mestrius Plutarchus (ca. 46- 127) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."

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"Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly."

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"Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life."

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"A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful? holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. Yet, added he, none of you can tell where it pinches me."

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"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."

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"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist."

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"Abstain from beans."

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"It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors."

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"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."

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"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."

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