Plutarch Quotes

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• The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these…
• Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety…
• To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in…
• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered…
• The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
• Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools,…
• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered…
• A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but also when they are old and past…
• They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in…
• It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
• It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice,…
• Either is both, and Both is neither.
• I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.
• A fool cannot hold his tongue.
• I see the cure is not worth the pain.
• I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
• Silence is an answer to a wise man.
• Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
• We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
• I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.

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