All Plutarch Quotes
- Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. Continually
- For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to… Ardent
- It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well. Better
- The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible,… Army
- The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds. Garden
- It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. Action
- We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature. Custom
- Custom is almost a second nature. Custom
- Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world. Answered
- There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice. Debt
- Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice. Good
- The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length. Existence
- No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. Anger
- Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors. Ancestor
- But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life… Animal
- An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. Age
- Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some… Antisthenes
- When the candles are out all women are fair. All
- When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.' Action
- If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however,… Animal