Plutarch Quotes about Giving

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It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

Plutarch

Character, Giving, Personality

Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's Corrected from the Greek”, p.345, Cosimo, Inc.

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.

Plutarch

Character, Men, Giving

Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.

Plutarch

Work, Giving, Ease

Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.213, 谷月社

As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.

Plutarch

Beautiful, Giving, Wish

To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting.

Plutarch

Fighting, Giving, Said

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.221

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

Plutarch

Giving, Serious, Bed

Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.

Plutarch

Greatness, Giving, Mind

Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.64, Modern Library

Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive."

Plutarch

Dog, Kings, Giving

"Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 45 Antigonus I. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.