Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.
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
Soldiers
Shut
Miserable
Councillors
Soldier
Forts
Conscience
Attended
Thoughts
Disturb
Guarded
Prince
More quotes by Plutarch
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Plutarch
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
Plutarch
Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
Plutarch
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
Plutarch
He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.
Plutarch
There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
Plutarch
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
Plutarch
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
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
Painting is silent poetry.
Plutarch
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
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Plutarch
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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
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
There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.
Plutarch
Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.
Plutarch
The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.
Plutarch
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Plutarch
Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.
Plutarch
