Quote

There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.

Plutarch

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Plutarch
Biographer
Essayist
Historian
Magistrate
Philosopher
Priest
Writer
Plutarchus
Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
Plutarchos
Pseudo-Plutarchus
Pseudo-Plutarch
Plutarch of Chaeronea
Ploutarchos
Harm
Wine
Strong
Soever
Body
Inflamed
Take
Stout
Never
Poured
Men
Troubled
Offense

More quotes by Plutarch

Image
As Meander says, For our mind is God and as Heraclitus, Man's genius is a deity.
Plutarch
Image
Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
Plutarch
Image
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
Plutarch
Image
Grief is natural the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.
Plutarch
Image
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
Plutarch
Image
He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
Plutarch
Image
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Plutarch
Image
Words will build no walls.
Plutarch
Image
When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, I would accept it, said Parmenio, were I Alexander. And so truly would I, said Alexander, if I were Parmenio. But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.
Plutarch
Image
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel
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
Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.
Plutarch
Image
Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).
Plutarch
Image
King Agis said, The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are.
Plutarch
Image
Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.
Plutarch
Image
He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.
Plutarch
Image
Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
Plutarch
Image
Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.
Plutarch
Image
Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
Plutarch
Image
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch