It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
PLUTARCHIt does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
More Plutarch Quotes
-
-
Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
PLUTARCH -
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 -
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
PLUTARCH -
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
PLUTARCH -
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PLUTARCH -
Character is simply a habit long continued.
PLUTARCH -
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
PLUTARCH -
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
PLUTARCH -
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
PLUTARCH -
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
PLUTARCH -
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
PLUTARCH -
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
PLUTARCH -
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
PLUTARCH -
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
PLUTARCH -
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
PLUTARCH