521 Quotes by Plutarch

Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only".

When the candles are out all women are fair.

As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.

When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

Though others before him had triumphed three times, Pompeius, by having gained his first triumph over Libya, his second over Europe, and this the last over Asia, seemed in a manner to have brought the whole world into his three triumphs.

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.