Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
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
Find
Matter
Trace
Difficult
History
Truth
Anything
More quotes by 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
Philosophy is the art of living.
Plutarch
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
Plutarch
Reason speaks and feeling bites
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
When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
Plutarch
It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.
Plutarch
If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.
Plutarch
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
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
Plutarch
Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
Plutarch
Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.
Plutarch
Painting is silent poetry.
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
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
Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.
Plutarch
Prosperity is no just scale adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch
Character is long-standing habit.
Plutarch
Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.
Plutarch
Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. Thy words, said he, Aristodemus, smell of the apron.
Plutarch
