521 Quotes by Plutarch

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

Philosophy is the art of living.

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.