X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Plutarch Inspirational Quotes (236)

Page 8 of 10
Filter & Style
Image
Painting is silent poetry.
Plutarch
Image
For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.
Plutarch
Image
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.
Plutarch
Image
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
Plutarch
Image
Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.
Plutarch
Image
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
Plutarch
Image
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
Plutarch
Image
Time is the wisest of all counselors.
Plutarch
Image
Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
Plutarch
Image
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
Image
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
Plutarch
Image
Reason speaks and feeling bites
Plutarch
Image
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch
Image
Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
Plutarch
Image
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.
Plutarch
Image
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Plutarch
Image
Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
Plutarch
Image
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
Plutarch
Image
To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, Prithee, said Cleomenes, give me cocks that will kill fighting.
Plutarch
Image
It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.
Plutarch
Image
It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.
Plutarch
Image
So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries calumny only succeeded in his absence.
Plutarch
Image
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
Plutarch
Image
Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
Plutarch
Previous
Next