Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.
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
Men
Shoot
Reasonable
Fast
Mark
Prosper
Succeed
Helpless
Stand
Coward
Winning
Post
Doe
Posts
More quotes by Plutarch
Time is the wisest of all counselors.
Plutarch
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.
Plutarch
I see the cure is not worth the pain.
Plutarch
Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).
Plutarch
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
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
There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
Plutarch
A soldier told Pelopidas, We are fallen among the enemies. Said he, How are we fallen among them more than they among us?
Plutarch
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
Plutarch
Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.
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
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
Plutarch
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
Plutarch
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
Plutarch
Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.
Plutarch
The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.
Plutarch
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
Plutarch
Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?
Plutarch
Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments smelled of the lamp, replied, Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.
Plutarch
He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
Plutarch
