Plutarch Quotes

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

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

The wildest colts make the best horses.

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

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

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

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

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

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.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

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