black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It’s a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

Plutarch

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
PLUTARCH

Advice Learning Live Man True
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
PLUTARCH

Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
We ought indeed to shrink from and feel shame at what is base, but nature which is over-cautious to avoid blame may be gentle and kindly, but cannot be great.
PLUTARCH

Feeling Greatness Nature Shame
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
PLUTARCH

Enjoyment Man Time
May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
PLUTARCH

Impossible Man Myself
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
PLUTARCH

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

Alone Beyond Friendship Nature Philosophy Seek
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.
PLUTARCH

Evil Live Man Victim
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
PLUTARCH

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

Animal Live Philosophy Right
Even those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.
PLUTARCH

Confidence Nature Success Virtue
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
PLUTARCH

Courage Oneself Philosophy
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
PLUTARCH

Evidence Love Trust
They insist upon the shaving of the mustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters.
PLUTARCH

Myself Thinking Young
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
PLUTARCH

Future Man Mistake Power Wisdom
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
PLUTARCH

Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom

It’s a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It’s a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Plutarch Quotes