521 Quotes by Plutarch

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good

When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.