Plutarch quotes - page 2

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature. (Plutarch)

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

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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

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

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

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There is no doubt that the real destroyer of the liberties of any people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and largess.

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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, 'but every goose can.'

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

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Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. (Plutarch)

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

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

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

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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.

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Where the lions skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the foxs.

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So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

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about Theseus, began the saying He is a second Hercules.

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As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.

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Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun. (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.

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Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

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The great god Pan is dead.

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Pittacus said, Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine and he is very happy who hath this only.

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Plutarch

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Occupation: Greek Philosopher
Quotes count: 308
Wikipedia: Plutarch

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