To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity." — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common;… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“It was natural for [Spartan women] to think and speak as Gorgo, the wife of Leonidas, is said to have done, when… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but also when they are… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but… — Plutarch Copy Share
King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are." — Plutarch Copy Share
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had… — Plutarch Copy Share
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as… — Plutarch Copy Share
There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for… — Plutarch Copy Share
Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force,… — Plutarch Copy Share
This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus… — Plutarch Copy Share
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. — Plutarch Copy Share
“In Springtime, O Dionysos, To thy holy temple come, To Elis with thy Graces, Rushing with thy bull-foot, come, Noble Bull, Noble Bull” — Plutarch Copy Share
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