Plutarch quotes

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. (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
Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.
Plutarch
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Plutarch
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
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 mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Plutarch
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
Plutarch
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Plutarch
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. (Plutarch)
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Plutarch
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Plutarch
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Plutarch
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Plutarch
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch
When the candles are out all women are fair.
Plutarch
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
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
Where the lions skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the foxs.
Plutarch
Said Scopas of Thessaly, 'We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.' (Plutarch)
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
Plutarch
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Plutarch
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
Plutarch
An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
Plutarch