Words matter. These are the best Plutarch Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Neither blame or praise yourself.
The wildest colts make the best horses.
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
Character is simply habit long continued.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Neither blame or praise yourself.
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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 own.
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
The wildest colts make the best horses.
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
Character is long-standing habit.
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
