Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
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
Making
Large
Failings
Lives
City
Induced
Individual
Habit
Quicker
Way
Failing
Practices
Men
Cities
Habits
Life
Public
Individuals
Practice
Faults
Moral
Private
Infecting
More quotes by Plutarch
Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.
Plutarch
It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.
Plutarch
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
Plutarch
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?
Plutarch
He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves
Plutarch
Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
Plutarch
Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
Plutarch
The belly has no ears.
Plutarch
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
Plutarch
As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.
Plutarch
When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
Plutarch
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
Plutarch
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
Plutarch
For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.
Plutarch
Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, God forbid that it should ever befall me!
Plutarch
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
Plutarch
Custom is almost a second nature.
Plutarch
That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.
Plutarch
Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.
Plutarch
Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.
Plutarch
