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Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
Greek biographer & moralist [more author details]

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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.: Plutarch
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.: Plutarch
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.: Plutarch
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.: Plutarch
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.: Plutarch
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.: Plutarch
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To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.: Plutarch
It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.: Plutarch, 'Morals,' 100 A.D.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.: Plutarch, Lives
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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.: Plutarch, Morals
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For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.: Plutarch, Morals
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.: Plutarch, Morals
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When the candles are out all women are fair.: Plutarch, Morals
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