Plutarch
Plutarch (/ˈpluːtɑːrk/; Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarkhos, Koine Greek: [plǔːtarkʰos]; later named, upon becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Λούκιος Μέστριος Πλούταρχος); c. AD 46 – AD 120) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He is classified as a Middle Platonist. Plutarch's surviving works were written in Greek, but intended for both Greek and Roman readers.
Plutarch Quotes
Plutarch #Best
The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch #Change #Inspirational
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Plutarch #Change #Friendship
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch #Courage #Fear
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Plutarch #Courage
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch #Education
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch #Great
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
Plutarch #Great
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch #Intelligence
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch #Poetry
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch #Wisdom
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch #Future #Good #Learning #Power #Wisdom
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 #Good
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
Plutarch #God
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Plutarch #Happiness
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch #Health #Music
Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Plutarch #Knowledge #Power
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.