Quotes by Plutarch
3 quotes by Plutarch (died 120), taken from 3 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Works quoted: On Education, On Contentedness of Mind and Life of Pericles.
On Education
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“A soil exceedingly rough and sterile by being farmed well produces excellent crops.”
On Contentedness of Mind
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“As we use our brightest colours in a picture, so in the mind we ought to look at the cheerful and bright side of things, and hide and keep down the gloomy, for we cannot altogether obliterate or get rid of it.”
Life of Pericles
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“It becomes a man’s duty to pursue and make after the best and choicest of everything, that he may not only employ his contemplation, but may also be improved by it.”