Plutarch quotes

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

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

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

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

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

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

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.

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

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

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.

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.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

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.

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.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

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.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

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