If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it … - Plutarch

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Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

Plutarch

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

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I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.

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A healer of others, himself diseased.

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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.

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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

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