PlutarchAuthority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty. ✨ Parallel Lives: Demosthenes and Cicero. Book by Plutarch… ▶371LoveReading
PlutarchNot by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a … ▶361DeathLife
PlutarchDistressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy. ✨ Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). Plutarch's Lives, p.183361Reading
PlutarchChoose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.372Humor
PlutarchNote that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit. ✨ Plutarch (1957). P… ▶373Love
PlutarchIf 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 clea… ▶342Death
PlutarchEither is both, and Both is neither. ✨ Plutarch (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated), p.2148, Delphi Classics375Philosophy
PlutarchIt is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. ✨ Plutarch (2013). Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's… ▶343Thought
PlutarchThe obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of … ▶376HumanityLifePolitics
PlutarchCato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils. ✨ Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). Plutarch's Morals, p… ▶376Humor
PlutarchPythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world. ✨ Platonic Questions, VIII, 4. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, 1… ▶366Time
PlutarchBeing conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which… ▶377SadnessThought
PlutarchThe same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the … ▶344Politics
PlutarchFor he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it an… ▶333Love
PlutarchThey are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in view, something which leaves off as soon as… ▶377LifeLovePolitics
PlutarchFate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.334Death
PlutarchAntisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that wor… ▶378Time
PlutarchWhat All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.312Sadness
PlutarchWhere two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.345Humanity
PlutarchPolitics 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.323LifePolitics
PlutarchIt does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.312Hope
PlutarchA lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress. ✨ Plutarch (1834). Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek; with Notes, Historical & Critical; & a Life of Plutarch, … ▶323LifeLove
PlutarchMoral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice. ✨ Plutarch (2012). Greek and Roman Lives, p.66, Courier Corporation346Death
PlutarchA few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.302Sadness
PlutarchIt is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.357Time
PlutarchThe mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.291Thought
PlutarchBut for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy. ✨… ▶313LifeTime
PlutarchLearn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!302Time
PlutarchIt is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely trouble… ▶335Truth
PlutarchWhat we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. ✨ Speech by J.K. Rowling at Harvard University, news.harvard.edu. June 05, 2008.346Truth
