59 Quotations by Plutarch
- 1. “The God, as it were, addresses each of us, as he enters, with his Know Thyself, which is at least a ...
- 2. A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chast ...
- 3. Abstain from beans.
- 4. All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a ...
- 5. An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
- 6. Character is long-standing habit.
- 7. Character is simply habit long continued.
- 8. Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
- 9. Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness; one of which is a lack, the other an excess o ...
- 10. Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
- 11. Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
- 12. Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resists.
- 13. For the wise man, every day is a festival.
- 14. For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
- 15. Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
- 16. He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
- 17. I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much be ...
- 18. In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption fro ...
- 19. In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
- 20. It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears
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