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Plutarch Quotes - Page 6

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The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

Strong, Wine, Men

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Friendship, Best Friend, Adversity

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

Pain, World, Littles

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Perseverance, Taken, Persistence

Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.761, 谷月社

Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

Plato, People, Age

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

Men, Luxury, Politics

Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.1104, 谷月社

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

Wickedness, Misery, Shame

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

Wise, Men, Ease

Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.446

I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being: who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, perception and with voice. …but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born in to the world to enjoy.

Men, Light, Voice

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.

Cities, Wronged

Plutarch (1959). “Plutarch's Lives”

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

Life, Soul, Mistress

Plutarch (1834). “Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek; with Notes, Historical & Critical; & a Life of Plutarch”, p.222

Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

Food, Dark, Clouds

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

Impossible, Silent, Easy

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.

Men, Vices, Savages

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

God, Needs, Want

Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.280, Cosimo, Inc.

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.

Hurt, Sight, Evil

Plutarch (1704). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.58

He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself

Reflection, Men, Want

Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.955, 谷月社

Words will build no walls.

Wall

Plutarch (1811). “Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greek”, p.125

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Fitness, Sweet, Relaxation

Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.

Character, Men, Giving

Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only".

Wife, Said, Very Happy

"On the Tranquillity of the Mind". Book by Plutarch. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

"Moralia". Book by Plutarch. "Of Superstition",

When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

Passion, Rage, Effects

It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.

Writing, Character, Battle

Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.

Hurtful, Riches

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