It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.
PlutarchPerseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
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.
PlutarchThere 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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