Inspirational Quotes by Plutarch

I see the cure is not worth the pain.

— Plutarch

Either is both, and Both is neither.

— Plutarch

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

— Plutarch

Philosophy is an act of living.

— Plutarch

Character is inured habit.

— Plutarch

Words will build no walls.

— Plutarch

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

— Plutarch

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

— Plutarch

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

— Plutarch

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

— Plutarch

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

— Plutarch

Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.

— Plutarch

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

— Plutarch

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

— Plutarch

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

— Plutarch

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from…

— Plutarch

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

— Plutarch

Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!

— Plutarch

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.

— Plutarch

What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?

— Plutarch

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

— Plutarch

That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.

— Plutarch

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

— Plutarch

Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

— Plutarch

A fool cannot hold his tongue.

— Plutarch

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

— Plutarch

Custom is almost a second nature.

— Plutarch

He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.

— Plutarch

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

— Plutarch

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.

— Plutarch

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

— Plutarch

Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me

— Plutarch

When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.

— Plutarch

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

— Plutarch

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.

— Plutarch

But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to…

— Plutarch