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View Plans“ ”Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
About Plutarch
Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (c. 46 – 120) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist.
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Additional quotes by Plutarch
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
if the “Know thyself” of the oracle were an easy thing for every man, it would not be held to be a divine injunction.
Numa forbade the Romans to revere an image of God which had the form of man or beast. Nor was there among them in this earlier time any painted or graven likeness of Deity, 8 but while for the first hundred and seventy years they were continually building temples and establishing sacred shrines, they made no statues in bodily form for them, convinced that it was impious to liken higher things to lower, and that it was impossible to apprehend Deity except by the intellect.