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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

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

- Plutarch

The wildest colts make the best horses.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

- 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

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

- Plutarch

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