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

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
Winning
Post
Doe
Posts
Men
Shoot
Reasonable
Fast
Mark
Prosper
Succeed
Helpless
Stand
Coward

More quotes by Plutarch

Image
A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, surely, quoth he, thou art all voice and nothing else.
Plutarch
Image
Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.
Plutarch
Image
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Plutarch
Image
Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.
Plutarch
Image
What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.
Plutarch
Image
Prosperity is no just scale adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch
Image
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
Image
Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.
Plutarch
Image
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
Plutarch
Image
Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
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
The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.
Plutarch
Image
Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.
Plutarch
Image
It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.
Plutarch
Image
Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
Plutarch
Image
These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people they call a spade a spade.
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
Image
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
Plutarch
Image
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
Image
As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.
Plutarch