521 Quotes by Plutarch

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied....

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.