It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
PlutarchIt does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
PlutarchNature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.
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