Quote

Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?

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
Matter
Asking
Returns
Think
Answer
Multitudes
Thinking
Number
Accident
Befallen
World
Return
Worlds
Lamentation
Numbers
Vast
Wept
Answers
Accidents
Alexander
Heard
Worthy
Conquered
Friends
Infinite
Multitude

More quotes by Plutarch

Image
Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.
Plutarch
Image
To please the many is to displease the wise.
Plutarch
Image
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Plutarch
Image
Reason speaks and feeling bites
Plutarch
Image
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
Image
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch
Image
King Agis said, The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are.
Plutarch
Image
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
Plutarch
Image
Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.
Plutarch
Image
Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.
Plutarch
Image
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
Plutarch
Image
Neither blame or praise yourself.
Plutarch
Image
When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.
Plutarch
Image
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.
Plutarch
Image
Demosthenes told Phocion, The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage. And you, said he, if they are once in their senses.
Plutarch
Image
It is no flattery to give a friend a due character for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.
Plutarch
Image
Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
Plutarch
Image
Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
Plutarch
Image
Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.
Plutarch
Image
If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax
Plutarch