Quotes Plutarch - page 4
Find dozens of Plutarch with images to copy and share.
The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.
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.
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
You may also like
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.
Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''
After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered.
If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.
Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
You may also like
