Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, A fool cannot hold his tongue.
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
Fool
Hold
Whether
Words
Cannot
Replied
Held
Tongue
Asked
More quotes by Plutarch
The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors
Plutarch
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
Plutarch
Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
Plutarch
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
Plutarch
I am whatever was, or is, or will be and my veil no mortal ever took up.
Plutarch
That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.
Plutarch
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
Plutarch
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Plutarch
Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.
Plutarch
Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.
Plutarch
Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.
Plutarch
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
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
I see the cure is not worth the pain.
Plutarch
Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'
Plutarch
The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.
Plutarch
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
Plutarch
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.
Plutarch
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
Plutarch
Character is long-standing habit.
Plutarch
