Plutarch Quotes
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When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.
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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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The great god Pan is dead.
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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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It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is.
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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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Philosophy is the art of living.
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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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These are the materials for reflection which history affords to those who choose to make use of them.
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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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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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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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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.
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τοῖς ἐγρηγορόσιν ἕνα καὶ κοινὸν κόσμον εἶναι, τῶν δὲ κοιμωμένων ἕκαστον εἰς ἴδιον ἀποστρέφεσθαι
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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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To please the many is to displease the wise.
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Neither blame or praise yourself.
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Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.
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It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.
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Either is both, and Both is neither.
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Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
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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.
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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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King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."