521 Quotes by Plutarch

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

Either is both, and Both is neither.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.