Quotes By Plutarch

Character is long-standing habit.

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

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.

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.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

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

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.

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

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.

Character is simply habit long continued.

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

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

Neither blame or praise yourself.

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

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

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

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

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

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

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

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.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

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

The wildest colts make the best horses.

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

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.