Plutarch Quotes
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The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors.
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Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, 'Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?' Antagoras replied, 'Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?'
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Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.
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As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.
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Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.
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I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.
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He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves.
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And when the physician said, 'Sir, you are an old man,' 'That happens,' replied Pausanias, 'because you never were my doctor.'
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Thus they let their anger and fury take from them the sense of humanity, and demonstrated that no beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
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I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares.
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'These Macedonians,' said he, 'are a rude and clownish people, that call a spade a spade.'
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Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.
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'T is a wise saying, Drive on your own track.
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Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
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Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.
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When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.
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For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
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When some were saying that if Cæsar should march against the city they could not see what forces there were to resist him, Pompey replied with a smile, bidding them be in no concern, 'for whenever I stamp my foot in any part of Italy there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot.'