Skip to main content

Character is simply habit long...

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch 385 quotes

It is not the most distinguish...

It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.

Plutarch 385 quotes

When a man's struggle begins w...

When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

Plutarch 385 quotes

The Epicureans, according to w...

The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are the substantial part of the world; like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.

Plutarch 385 quotes

What All The World Knows Water...

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

Plutarch 385 quotes

For the mind does not require ...

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

Plutarch 385 quotes

It is wise to be silent when o...

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

Plutarch 385 quotes

The same intelligence is requi...

The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

Plutarch 385 quotes

The richest soil, if uncultiva...

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

Plutarch 385 quotes

He who owns a hundred sheep mu...

He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

Plutarch 385 quotes

The mind is not a vessel to be...

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch 385 quotes

An imbalance between rich and ...

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Plutarch 385 quotes

Painting is silent poetry, and...

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Plutarch 385 quotes

The real destroyer of the libe...

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Plutarch 385 quotes

We ought not to treat living c...

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

Plutarch 385 quotes

To make no mistakes is not in ...

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.

Plutarch 385 quotes

Know how to listen, and you wi...

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Plutarch 385 quotes

Do not speak of your happiness...

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

Plutarch 385 quotes

It is part of a good man to do...

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Plutarch 385 quotes

Character is long-standing hab...

Character is long-standing habit.

Plutarch 385 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

23

Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

83

Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

115

Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

219

Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

541

Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

165

Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....