Plutarch Quotes
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The great god Pan is dead.
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Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
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Barba non facit philosophum.
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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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There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
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Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.
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The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.
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For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.
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For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
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Being about to pitch his camp in a likely place, and hearing there was no hay to be had for the cattle, 'What a life,' said he, 'is ours, since we must live according to the convenience of asses!'
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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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Neither blame or praise yourself.
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τοῖς ἐγρηγορόσιν ἕνα καὶ κοινὸν κόσμον εἶναι, τῶν δὲ κοιμωμένων ἕκαστον εἰς ἴδιον ἀποστρέφεσθαι
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A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.
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Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
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Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
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Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, 'She can choose best,' and so took both away with him.
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A fool cannot hold his tongue.
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As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.
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Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
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Character is inured habit.
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To please the many is to displease the wise.
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I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.
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Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.