The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

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About Plutarch

Portrait of Plutarch

Plutarch (; Ancient Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos, Koine Greek: [ˈplúːtarkʰos]; before AD 50 – after 120) was a Greek and later Roman Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious...

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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

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So little time and so little to do.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

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

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English—up to fifty words used in correct context—no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

—Aldous Huxley

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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

—Horace Walpole

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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

—George Santayana

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