Quotes of Plutarch - somelinesforyou

“ Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. ”

- Plutarch

“ When the candles are out all women are fair. ”

- Plutarch

“ 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. ”

- Plutarch

“ The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. ”

- Plutarch

“ 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. ”

- Plutarch

“ For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. ”

- Plutarch

“ The best things are the most difficult. ”

- Plutarch

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

- Plutarch

“ Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. ”

- Plutarch

“ What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. ”

- Plutarch

“ Character is simply habit long continued. ”

- Plutarch

“ The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. ”

- Plutarch

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

- Plutarch

“ 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

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

- Plutarch

“ What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. ”

- Plutarch

“ A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. ”

- Plutarch

“ Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. ”

- Plutarch

“ Time is the wisest of all counselors. ”

- Plutarch

“ The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. ”

- Plutarch

“ Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior. ”

- Plutarch

“ Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior. ”

- Plutarch

“ Painting is silent poetry. ”

- Plutarch

“ Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. ”

- Plutarch

“ The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. ”

- Plutarch

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

- Plutarch

“ 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. ”

- Plutarch

“ When a man’s struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something. ”

- Plutarch

“ 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

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

- Plutarch
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