Plutarch
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
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"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
"العقل ليس وعاءً يُملأ، بل نارٌ تُوقَد."
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"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
"الرسم شعر صامت، والشعر رسم يتكلم."
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"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."
"ليس في طاقة البشر ألا يخطئوا، بل من أخطائهم وزلاتهم يتعلم الحكماء والأخيار الحكمة للمستقبل."
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"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better."
"لا أحتاج صديقًا يتغير بتغيري، ويومئ برأسه حين أومئ أنا؛ فظلي يفعل ذلك على نحو أفضل بكثير."
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"Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage."
"الشجاعة منزلة بين الجبن والتهور، فالأول نقص فيها، والآخر إفراط."
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"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."
"ما من إنسانٍ قطّ بلّل طينًا ثم تركه، وكأنّما ستتكوّن منه اللّبنات صدفةً وحظًّا."
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"I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions."
"أوثر التفوق في معرفة الفضائل على سعة"
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"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil."
"إن إغفال الخير لا يقل قبحًا عن ارتكاب الشر."
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"The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education."
"إن منبع الصدق والفضيلة وأساسهما يكمنان في حسن التربية."
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"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."
"إن العصمة من الخطأ ليست في طاقة البشر، ولكن من زلاتهم وأخطائهم يتعلم الحكماء والأخيار الحكمة للمستقبل."
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"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
"العقل ليس وعاءً يُملأ، بل نارٌ تُوقَد."
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"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."
"لا تُفصِح عن سعادتك لمن هو أقل حظًا منك."
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"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord."
"إن الطب، ليُثمر صحة، لا بد أن يُمحّص الداء؛ والموسيقى، لتُبدع تناغماً، لا بد أن تستقصي النشاز."
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"Rest is the sweet sauce of labour."
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"Words will build no walls."
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"It is a difficult task Oh citizens to make speeches to the belly which has no ears."
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"Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little."
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"The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses."
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"As to Caesar when he was called upon he gave no testimony against Clodius nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime but of the very suspicion of it."
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"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood."
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