Plutarch Quotes
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For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
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Themistocles said to Antiphales, 'Time, young man, has taught us both a lesson'.
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Neither blame or praise yourself.
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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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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.
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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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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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.
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Barba non facit philosophum.
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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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A fool cannot hold his tongue.
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Character is inured habit.
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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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τοῖς ἐγρηγορόσιν ἕνα καὶ κοινὸν κόσμον εἶναι, τῶν δὲ κοιμωμένων ἕκαστον εἰς ἴδιον ἀποστρέφεσθαι
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Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practise.
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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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Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
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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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For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.
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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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Either is both, and Both is neither.
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To please the many is to displease the wise.
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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.