Plutarch's Quotes

Plutarch's Quotes 39

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

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the...

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony...

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

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

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my...

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

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded...

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

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

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

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and...

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

Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the...

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

Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music to create harmony...

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

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risk...

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

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is...

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and...

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