Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Criminals
Fool
Sicily
Saying
Athenians
Might
Summoned
Life
Plead
Defence
Studied
Criminal
More quotes by Plutarch
As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.
Plutarch
Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
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
Neither blame or praise yourself.
Plutarch
Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
Plutarch
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
Plutarch
Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).
Plutarch
Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.
Plutarch
Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
Plutarch
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
Plutarch
There were two brothers called Both and Either perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, Either is both, and Both is neither.
Plutarch
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel
Plutarch
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Plutarch
When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, I would accept it, said Parmenio, were I Alexander. And so truly would I, said Alexander, if I were Parmenio. But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.
Plutarch
He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.
Plutarch
Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
Plutarch
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
Plutarch
Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.
Plutarch
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
Plutarch
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
