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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What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.
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... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.
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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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Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. 'They are tall,' said he, 'and comely, but bear no fruit.'
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A fool cannot hold his tongue.
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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.
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For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
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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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It was the saying of Bion, that though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
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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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These are the materials for reflection which history affords to those who choose to make use of them.
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Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
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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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The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.
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Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.
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Cato instigated the magistrates to punish all offenders, saying that they that did not prevent crimes when they might, encouraged them. Of young men, he liked them that blushed better than those who looked pale.
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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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A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.
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Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
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It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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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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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.