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Plutarch quotes, quotations, sayings

A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.
Plutarch
 1008    
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Plutarch
 1005    
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
 1005    
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Plutarch
 1005    
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Plutarch
 1005    
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
 1005    
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
 1005    
The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.
Plutarch
 1005    
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
Plutarch
 1004    
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch
 1004    
When the candles are out all women are fair.
Plutarch, Morals
 1004    
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
Plutarch
 1004    
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
Plutarch
 1004    
Learn to be pleased with everything with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Plutarch
 1004    
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch
 1004    
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
Plutarch
 1004    
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham
 1004    
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, ''Action, Action, Action.''
Plutarch
 1004    
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch
 1004    
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Plutarch
 1004    
They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [A Sheep].
Plutarch
 1004    
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
Plutarch
 1004    
Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
Plutarch
 1004    
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
Plutarch
 1004    
The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch
 1004    
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch
 1004    
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.
Plutarch
 1004    
Abstain from beans.
Plutarch
 1004    
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
Plutarch
 1004    
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Plutarch
 1004    
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
Plutarch
 1004    
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Plutarch
 1004    
The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
Plutarch
 1004    
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Plutarch
 1004    
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.''
Plutarch
 1004    
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Plutarch
 1004    
To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
Plutarch
 1004    
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
Plutarch
 1004    
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Plutarch
 1004    
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Plutarch
 1004    
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
Plutarch
 1004    
Time is the wisest of all counselors.
Plutarch
 1004    
Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
Plutarch
 1004    
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Plutarch
 1004    
On applause: They named it Ovation from the Latin _ovis_, a sheep.
Plutarch
 1004    
Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch
 1004    
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Plutarch
 1004    
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
Plutarch
 1004    
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Plutarch
 1004    
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch
 1004    


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