Plutarch Quotes

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

When the candles are out all women are fair.