Author: Plutarch

Quotes

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.

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.

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

- 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

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

- 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

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

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

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

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

- Plutarch

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

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

- Plutarch

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