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Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln

Character is long-standing habit.

- Plutarch | Character and Personality Quotes

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

- Plutarch | Food Quotes

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

- Plutarch | Goals and Ambition Quotes

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

- Plutarch | Heredity Quotes

Agesilaus, the Spartan king, was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale, but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.

- Plutarch | Imitation Quotes

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

- Plutarch | Memory Quotes

It is a difficult task, Oh citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

- Plutarch | Truth Quotes

Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.

- Plutarch | Work Quotes

Prosperity is not just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

- Plutarch | Friendship in Bad Times Quotes

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

- Plutarch | Acceptance Quotes

Character is simply habit long enough continued.

- Plutarch | One Day Quotes

Time is the soul of this world.

- Plutarch | One Day Quotes

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

- Plutarch | The Present Quotes

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.

- Plutarch | Role Models Quotes

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

- Plutarch | Realistic Expectations Quotes

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.

- Plutarch | Courage Quotes

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

- Plutarch | Luck Quotes

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

- Plutarch | Time Quotes

To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

- Plutarch | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

- Plutarch | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

From their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

- Plutarch | Adversity Quotes

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

- Plutarch | Biography Quotes

The wildest colts make the best horses.

- Plutarch | Childhood Quotes

Themistocles said, "The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you."

- Plutarch | Government Quotes

As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it."

- Plutarch | Suspicion Quotes

Words will build no walls.

- Plutarch | Word Quotes