Author: Plutarch

Quotes

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

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

- Plutarch

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

- Plutarch

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

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

- Plutarch

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

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

- Plutarch

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

- Plutarch

The wildest colts make the best horses.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

- Plutarch

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

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

- Plutarch

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.

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.

- Plutarch

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

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

- Plutarch

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