Plutarch Quotes
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Themistocles said to Antiphales, 'Time, young man, has taught us both a lesson'.
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A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.
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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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A fool cannot hold his tongue.
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If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax.
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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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For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
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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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There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
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Character is inured habit.
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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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The great god Pan is dead.
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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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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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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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Neither blame or praise yourself.
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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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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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Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
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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.