Plutarch Quotes about Wisdom

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Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

Plutarch

Wisdom, Gold, Wealth

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

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

Plutarch

Wisdom, Men, Politics

Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.504, 谷月社

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

Plutarch

Wisdom, Justice, Politics

Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.748, 谷月社

Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.

Plutarch

Wisdom, Ambition, Mean

Plutarch, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough (2005). “Greek and Roman Lives”, p.376, Courier Corporation