521 Quotes by Plutarch

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.