It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
Interpretation
Good people should strive to perform noble actions, even at the risk of losing everything.
This quote by Plutarch emphasizes the virtue of courage and the importance of acting nobly despite potential risks. It suggests that true character is demonstrated through selfless acts, where the intrinsic value of doing what is right outweighs the fear of personal loss or failure.
In practice
In a speech about ethics and values, one could say, 'It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.'
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Come back with your shield - or on it
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.
There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
Extraordinary circumstances often bring along with them extraordinary strength. No man knows, till the experiment, what he is capable of effecting.
Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves
I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist... anything but a racist.
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