I see the cure is not worth the pain.
Interpretation
Sometimes the potential for a solution may not justify the suffering required to achieve it.
This quote by Plutarch suggests that certain remedies or solutions in life may not be worth the struggle or pain that comes with them. It reflects on the philosophical idea that while we may seek to resolve our issues, we must evaluate whether the outcome is truly beneficial in comparison to the hardships we endure to achieve it.
In practice
During a motivational speech about the sacrifices necessary for personal growth.
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
Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.
Every desire of your body is holy;_x000D_ _x000D_ Every desire of your body is_x000D_ _x000D_ Holy.
The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.
Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Sometimes during solitude I hear truth spoken with clarity and freshness; uncolored and untranslated it speaks from within myself in a language original but inarticulate, heard only with the soul, and I realize I brought it with me, was never taught it nor can I efficiently teach it to another.
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