Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To please the many is to displease the wise.
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
Popularity
Please
Wise
Many
Displease
More quotes by Plutarch
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
Plutarch
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
Plutarch
Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
Plutarch
King Agis said, The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are.
Plutarch
Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
Plutarch
There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
Plutarch
These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people they call a spade a spade.
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
Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.
Plutarch
Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.
Plutarch
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
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
Plutarch
A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it.
Plutarch
Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.
Plutarch
Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.
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
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
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
Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
Plutarch
Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
Plutarch
