59 Quotations by Plutarch
- 21. It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
- 22. It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
- 23. It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
- 24. It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one i ...
- 25. Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
- 26. Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with p ...
- 27. Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate disco ...
- 28. No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
- 29. Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best disc ...
- 30. Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymn ...
- 31. Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
- 32. Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is advers ...
- 33. Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they ar ...
- 34. Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
- 35. Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
- 36. Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
- 37. Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, "There is a wide difference ...
- 38. The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
- 39. The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
- 40. The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
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