“The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.” — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions,… — 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
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. — 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
By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes… — 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
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 Image
King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are." — Plutarch Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
