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Philosoph, Biograph (Griechenland, 45 - 120).

Plutarch · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Plutarch wäre heute 1979 Jahre, 3 Monate, 19 Tage oder 722.924 Tage alt.

Geboren am 01.01.0045 in Chaironeia
Gestorben am 0120 in Athen
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock

• It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration - nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

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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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• It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

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• Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

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• Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

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• Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

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• 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.

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• Philosophy is the art of living.

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• Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

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

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• Remember what Simonides said - that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

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• Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

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• Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

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• The King said, "The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you."

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• The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

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• The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

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• The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. - And the first evil that attends those who know not how to be silent, is, that they hear nothing.

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• The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

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• There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle . . . "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

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• There is no doubt that the real destroyer of the liberties of any people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and largess.

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