Quotes by Plutarch

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

Topics: although, boys, frogs

Wait for the wisest of all counsellors, Time.

Topics: counsellors, lifetime, wait

How strongly does this bear out the truth of Plato’s maxim, that he who wishes to be really rich ought to lessen his desires rather than increase his property, because if a man places no bounds to his covetousness, he never will be free from want and misery.

Topics: bear, erich, maxim

“The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.”

Topics: atwood, filling, history

“A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, “

Topics: blamed, divorced, friends

“Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.”

Topics: also, deeds, great

“When the candles are out all women are fair.”

Topics: candles, fairest, history

“This gives a great field for the flatterer in friendship, who finds a wonderful base of operations in our self-love, which makes each person his own first and greatest flatterer.”

Topics: fields, finds, flatterer

“He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.”

Topics: closely, follow, fooled

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Topics: became, conquered

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