521 Quotes by Plutarch

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are the substantial part of the world; like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.