Quotes by Plutarch

Carthage must be destroyed.

Topics: carthage, destroyed

One more such victory over the Romans and we are lost.

Topics: anymore, discover, lost

I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.

Topics: athenian, citizen, greeks

Old to grow, but ever learning.

Topics: beverly, growing, learning

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Topics: also, deeds, great

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

Topics: atwood, filling, igniting

When the candles are out all women are fair.

Topics: candles, fairest, when

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: based, fields, finds

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, “Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful? Holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. “Yet,” added he, “none of you can tell where it pinches me.”

Topics: blamed, chaste, demanded

Written laws are like spiders’ webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Topics: catch, dislike, flaws

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