Plutarch Quotes

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

Painting is silent poetry,
and poetry is painting that speaks.

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield
themselves up when taken little by little.

Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.

Barba non facit philosophum

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

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.

A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.