Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Plutarch
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Plutarch
Biographer
Essayist
Historian
Magistrate
Philosopher
Priest
Writer
Plutarchus
Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
Plutarchos
Pseudo-Plutarchus
Pseudo-Plutarch
Plutarch of Chaeronea
Ploutarchos
Even
Badly
Empathy
Profit
Advice
Listening
Listen
Talk
Inspirational
More quotes by Plutarch
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Plutarch
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.
Plutarch
Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.
Plutarch
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch
Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. They are tall, said he, and comely, but bear no fruit.
Plutarch
King Agis said, The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are.
Plutarch
I see the cure is not worth the pain.
Plutarch
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.
Plutarch
When the candles are out all women are fair.
Plutarch
A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it.
Plutarch
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
Plutarch
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Plutarch
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Plutarch
Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
Plutarch
We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
Plutarch
Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
Plutarch
Character is long-standing habit.
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
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
Plutarch
The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.
Plutarch