Plutarch Quotes
-
A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.
-
For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.
-
τοῖς ἐγρηγορόσιν ἕνα καὶ κοινὸν κόσμον εἶναι, τῶν δὲ κοιμωμένων ἕκαστον εἰς ἴδιον ἀποστρέφεσθαι
-
These are the materials for reflection which history affords to those who choose to make use of them.
-
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
-
Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.
-
The great god Pan is dead.
-
He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.
-
For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
-
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
-
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
-
Either is both, and Both is neither.
-
It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.
-
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn a limp.
-
Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
-
Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.
-
It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.
-
King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."
-
Painting is silent poetry.
-
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.
-
Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.
-
...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
-
For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.
-
Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.