Author: Plutarch

Quotes

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

- 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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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