Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
PlutarchLamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.
PlutarchSometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
Plutarch