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.
PlutarchGod alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.
PlutarchSolon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
PlutarchThe usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.
PlutarchAs in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.
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