Plutarch Quotes
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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn a limp.
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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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Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.
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A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.
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Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.
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There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.
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When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
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Character is inured habit.
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...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.
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Neither blame or praise yourself.
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Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
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A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.
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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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To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.
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Philip being arbitrator betwixt two wicked persons, he commanded one to fly out of Macedonia and the other to pursue him.
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To please the many is to displease the wise.
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Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.
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He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good.
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For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.
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Lysander said, 'Where the lion's skin will not reach, it must be pieced with the fox's.'
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Beauty is the flower of virtue.