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The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. - [Loquacity] The unexamined life is not worth living. - [Life] The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - [Reputation] There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate. - [Temperance] They who provide much wealth for their children, but neglect to improve them in virtue, do like those who feed their horses high, but never train them to the manage. - [Education] Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults. - [Friendship] Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit. - [Flattery] To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity. - [Necessity] True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. - [Knowledge] Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will. - [Weeping] Virtue is the beauty of the soul. - [Virtue] Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude. - [Virtue] What a lot of things there are a man can do without. - [Necessity] Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. - [Proverbs] Wisdom adorns riches, and shadows poverty. - [Wisdom] Wisdom begins in wonder. - [Wisdom] Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior. - [Equality] You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve. - see Plato's "Phaedo", 77 [Swans] As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. - in Plato's "Phaedrus", sec. CCXXXV [Knowledge : Wisdom] For who is there but you? who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others. - Plato, (Jowett's translation), said to Protagoras [Goodness] Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. - Plutarch's Morals--How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems [Eating] Displaying page 3 of 3 for this author: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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