Famous Quotes

Quotes by Plutarch

• Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
• Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
• Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
• 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.
• It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
• 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.
• Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
• Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
• Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
• The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
• The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
• The wildest colts make the best horses.
• Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
• 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.
• What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.