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

Plutarch

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

Plutarch

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

Plutarch

When the candles are out all women are fair.

Plutarch

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

Plutarch

For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being centred upon the few, the generality were poor and miserable. Honourable pursuits, for which there was no longer leisure, were neglected; the state was filled with sordid business, and with hatred and envy of the rich.

Plutarch

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

Plutarch

Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

Plutarch

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

Plutarch

It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is

Plutarch

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

Plutarch

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.

Plutarch

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

Plutarch

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

Plutarch

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

Plutarch

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

Plutarch

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

Plutarch

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

Plutarch

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

Plutarch

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

Plutarch

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

Plutarch

For the wise man, every day is a festival.

Plutarch

As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.

Plutarch

Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.

Plutarch

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.

Plutarch

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

Plutarch

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

Plutarch

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

Plutarch

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

Plutarch

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

Plutarch

Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.

Plutarch

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

Plutarch

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

Plutarch

For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

Plutarch

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Plutarch

He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

Plutarch

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

Plutarch

Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

Plutarch

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

Plutarch

Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

Plutarch

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

Plutarch

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

Plutarch

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

Plutarch

Character is long-standing habit.

Plutarch

That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.

Plutarch

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

Plutarch

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

Plutarch
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