521 Quotes by Plutarch

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

By the aid of philosophy you will live not unpleasantly, for you will learn to extract pleasure from all places and things: wealth will make you happy, because it will enable you to benefit many; and poverty, as you will not then have many anxieties; and glory, for it will make you honoured; and obscurity, for you will then be safe from envy.

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

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Demaratus, being asked in a troublesome manner by an importunate fellow, Who was the best man in Lacedaemon? answered at last, 'He, Sir, that is the least like you'.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.