Plutarch Quotes about Philosophy

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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Plutarch

Friendship, Change, Philosophy

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

Plutarch

Philosophy, Talking, People

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