Plutarch Quote Explained: Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

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Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

- Plutarch

Historian and Biographer

· Greece

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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

- Plutarch

Historian and Biographer

· Greece

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A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

- Plutarch

Historian and Biographer

· Greece

Friendship

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Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]

- Plutarch

Historian and Biographer

· Greece

Death

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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

- Plutarch

Historian and Biographer

· Greece

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Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

- Plutarch

Historian and Biographer

· Greece

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The old proverb was now made good, “the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

- Plutarch

Historian and Biographer

· Greece

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Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

- Plutarch

Historian and Biographer

· Greece

Soul
Time

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

The old proverb was now made good, “the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation.

Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.

I still feel the same way about God’s Word as I did when I was 15 and lost my sight.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.

Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

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