Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
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
Honesty
Roots
Spring
Teacher
Virtue
Education
Lying
Root
Good
Appreciation
More quotes by Plutarch
A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line.
Plutarch
Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.
Plutarch
Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).
Plutarch
To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, Prithee, said Cleomenes, give me cocks that will kill fighting.
Plutarch
Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
Plutarch
He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.
Plutarch
If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.
Plutarch
Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.
Plutarch
There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
Plutarch
When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
Plutarch
Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
Plutarch
Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.
Plutarch
As Meander says, For our mind is God and as Heraclitus, Man's genius is a deity.
Plutarch
They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.
Plutarch
Philosophy is the art of living.
Plutarch
Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
Plutarch
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
Plutarch
Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.
Plutarch
Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?
Plutarch
If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax
Plutarch
