Plutarch Famous Quotes
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
"Learn to be pleased with everything with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied."
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
"The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him."
"Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them."
"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."
"It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors."
"An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave."
"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."
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
"For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human."
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."
To find a fault is easy to do better may be difficult.
When the candles are out all women are fair.
The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.
Plutarch Quotations
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose . to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
Victor Borge
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Hansell B Duckett
To love another person is to help them love God.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.
Unknown
"On love I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being."
Harlan Ellison
"I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know."
Joseph Conrad
"A politician is like quicksilver if you try to put your finger on him, you will find nothing under it."
Austin O Malley
There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
Nancy Spain
"When I was young, I was sure of many things now there are only two things of which I am sure one is, that I am a miserable sinner and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons."
John Newton
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi