Men Quotes by Plutarch · Page 3

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

— Plutarch

Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all…

— Plutarch

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

— Plutarch

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

— Plutarch

It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of…

— Plutarch

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

— Plutarch

For the wise man, every day is a festival.

— Plutarch

Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.

— Plutarch

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

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Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the…

— Plutarch

“It’s a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter; but to…

— Plutarch

Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a…

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For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of…

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

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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…

— Plutarch

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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Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

— Plutarch

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

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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.

— Plutarch

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

— Plutarch

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

— Plutarch

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

— Plutarch

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

— Plutarch

Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the…

— Plutarch