Plutarch Quote Explained: Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

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Learn to be pleased with everything…because it could always be worse, but isn’t!

- Plutarch

Historian and Biographer

· Greece

Gratitude

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

- Plutarch

Historian and Biographer

· Greece

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The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

- Plutarch

Historian and Biographer

· Greece

Strong
Wine

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The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

- Plutarch

Historian and Biographer

· Greece

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Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

- Plutarch

Historian and Biographer

· Greece

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Where the lion’s skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox’s.

- Plutarch

Historian and Biographer

· Greece

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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

- Plutarch

Historian and Biographer

· Greece

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Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

- Plutarch

Historian and Biographer

· Greece

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

Learn to be pleased with everything…because it could always be worse, but isn’t!

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

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

Where the lion’s skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox’s.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

I just love the ideal of the surreal quality of putting it on a shoe.

The first thing I notice about a man are his shoes. Then I look at his watch.

For the hard roads, you must have good shoes! And your brain and your luck are your best shoes ever!

Any shoe which protects your feet in a hard road is a beautiful shoe!

I don’t want to feel a shoe; I want the shoe to become part of me.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

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