Quotes By Plutarch

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.