« All One Quotes · Plutarch's Page
One Quotes by Plutarch
- An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
- And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing…
- A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he,…
- Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil…
- Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
- Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
- He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a…
- All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his…
- Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
- Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
- Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
- It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only…
- Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
- Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense…
- The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle