"Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does."
Read quote
8 likes
Quote collection
Plutarch quotes (page 9 of 20)
392 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set up a democracy in your own house.""
Read quote
8 likes
"Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken."
Read quote
7 likes
"Proper listening is the foundation of proper living."
Read quote
7 likes
"Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy."
Read quote
7 likes
"A healer of others, himself diseased."
Read quote
7 likes
"Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men."
Read quote
7 likes
"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."
Read quote
7 likes
"Philosophy is the art of living."
Read quote
7 likes
"Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself."
Read quote
7 likes
"He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush."
Read quote
7 likes
"Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied."
Read quote
7 likes
"Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy."
Read quote
7 likes
"The wildest colts make the best horses."
Read quote
7 likes
"It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered."
Read quote
7 likes
"Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion."
Read quote
7 likes
"He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him."
Read quote
7 likes
"Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit.""
Read quote
7 likes
"It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears."
Read quote
7 likes
"Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara."
Read quote
7 likes