Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.
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
Either
Mourned
Dishonor
Harmful
Selfish
Brings
Grief
Dishonors
Advantage
Mourner
Dead
Immoderate
More quotes by Plutarch
So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.
Plutarch
Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
Plutarch
Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
Plutarch
Neither blame or praise yourself.
Plutarch
It is no flattery to give a friend a due character for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.
Plutarch
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
Plutarch
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Plutarch
That proverbial saying, Ill news goes quick and far.
Plutarch
The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made for they are the substantial part of the world like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.
Plutarch
Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
Plutarch
I am whatever was, or is, or will be and my veil no mortal ever took up.
Plutarch
Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Plutarch
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
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
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Plutarch
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
Plutarch
Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts
Plutarch
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
Plutarch
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
Plutarch
Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
Plutarch