521 Quotes by Plutarch

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Paulus Aemilius, on taking command of the forces in Macedonia, and finding them talkative and impertinently busy, as though they were all commanders, issued out his orders that they should have only ready hands and keen swords, and leave the rest to

To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose

The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds

Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone.

The measure of a man is way he bears up under misfortune