Plutarch Quotes
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
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Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
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To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.
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Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.
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Being nimble and light-footed, his father encouraged him to run in the Olympic race. 'Yes,' said he, 'if there were any kings there to run with me.'
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The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.
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Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, 'that,' said he, 'the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me.'
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When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.
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Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.
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Xenophanes said, 'I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.'
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As Cæsar was at supper the discourse was of death,-which sort was the best. 'That,' said he, 'which is unexpected.'
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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. 'Thy words,' said he, 'Aristodemus, smell of the apron.'
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There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.
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Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.
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He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.
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To sing the same tune, as the saying is, is in everything cloying and offensive; but men are generally pleased with variety.
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Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
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As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan.
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But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.
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If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.
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Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.
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Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
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The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.