Top 25 Quotes by Plutarch of 392 - Page 7

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Character, Mind, States

Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.

Plutarch

Vegetarianism, Teeth, Body

Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.

Plutarch

Soul, Looks, Noble

"Plutarch's Lives in Eight Volumes".

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

Plutarch

Hands, Fool

Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2726, Delphi Classics

There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, "Either is both, and Both is neither.

Plutarch

Brother, Silly, Two

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.195

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

Soldier, Shut Up, Miserable

Philosophy is an act of living.

Plutarch

Life, Philosophy, Live Life

A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."

Plutarch

Silence, Would Be, Barbers

"Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 33 Archelaus. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.

Plutarch

Plato, Rivers, Gold

Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's lives”, p.59

Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.

Plutarch

Selfish, Grief, Advantage

He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

Plutarch

Opinion, Should, Carthage

But 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.

Plutarch

Life, Animal, Light

Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Plutarch

Fate, Destiny, Men

Plutarch (1906). “Essays & Miscellanies...”

When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

Plutarch

Struggle, Men, He Man

The 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 participants.

Plutarch

Food, Army, Order

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Plutarch

Enemy, Quality, Excellent

Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.

Plutarch

Should, Benevolence, Humankind

Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

The 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 a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

Plutarch

Kindness, Philosophical, Animal

As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."

Plutarch

Men, Mind, Genius

Platonic Questions, I. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

Plutarch

Art, Doe, Succeed

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

Plutarch

Wickedness, Miserable, Wonderful

Plutarch (1951). “Selected Lives and Essays”

A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.

Plutarch

Determination, Mind, Noble

Plutarch (2012). “Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

Plutarch

Men, Discovery, Vices

Plutarch (2010). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me.

Plutarch

Dog, Cutting, Tails

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.211

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

Philosophical, Animal, Vegetarianism

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