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Plutarch Quotes

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

– Plutarch

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

– Plutarch

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

– Plutarch

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.

– Plutarch

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.

– Plutarch

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

– Plutarch

Character is simply habit long continued.

– Plutarch

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

– Plutarch

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

– Plutarch

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

– Plutarch

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.

– Plutarch

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

– Plutarch

Neither blame or praise yourself.

– Plutarch

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

– Plutarch

Character is long-standing habit.

– Plutarch

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

– Plutarch

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

– Plutarch

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

– Plutarch

The wildest colts make the best horses.

– Plutarch

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

– Plutarch

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

– Plutarch

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

– Plutarch

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

– Plutarch

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

– Plutarch

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

– Plutarch

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

– Plutarch