Men Quotes by Plutarch · Page 2

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

— Plutarch

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a…

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

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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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Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the…

— Plutarch

Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the…

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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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Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common;…

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Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary…

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The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried,…

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When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.

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

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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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Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to…

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As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."

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By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their…

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

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

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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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I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a…

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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…

— Plutarch