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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. ↗

— Plutarch

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

— Plutarch

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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. ↗

— Plutarch

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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. ↗

— Plutarch

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The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. ↗

— Plutarch

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door. ↗

— Plutarch

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. ↗

— Plutarch

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To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule. ↗

— Emily Post

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Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow. ↗

— Li Po

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At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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