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Plutarch
Quotes
Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Plutarch?
→ Health is not valued till sickness comes.
→ Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
→ Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
→ Absence of occupation is not rest. A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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→ As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
→ Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
→ To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
→ The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
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Select the quotation attributed to Plutarch.
→ A friend to all is a friend to none.
→ Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
→ The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
→ You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
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One of these may be attributed to Plutarch. Which one?
→ The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
→ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
→ Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
→ Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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Which one of these belongs to Plutarch?
→ Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful.
→ We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
→ Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
→ You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Plutarch?
→ Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
→ Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
→ No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
→ All men by nature desire knowledge.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Plutarch.
→ Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
→ Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
→ We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
→ When the candles are out, all women are fair.
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