Men Quotes by Plutarch · Page 2

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

— Plutarch

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the…

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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…

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They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

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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…

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Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

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He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself

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We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

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Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it…

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Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How…

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What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity…

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The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles…

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Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only…

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Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults…

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When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said…

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It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast…

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What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns…

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Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts…

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A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but also when they are…

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There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take…

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A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past…

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Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a…

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Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

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The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

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Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

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Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown…

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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…

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Silence is an answer to a wise man.

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Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

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I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.

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Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

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Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

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If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it…

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Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made…

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One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not…

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The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every…

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing…

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When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him…

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Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in…

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When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all…

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