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

Quote by Plutarch

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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial...

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial...

A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech

A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I...

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I...

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is...

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is...

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

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

Reason speaks and feeling bites

Reason speaks and feeling bites

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Time is the wisest of all counselors

Time is the wisest of all counselors

Themosticles said The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern...

Themosticles said The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern...

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

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

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's...

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's...

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that...

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that...

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.