The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds. - Plutarch - Quotesmemo.com

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Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

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Plutarch

The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.

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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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