Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.

I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.

Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.

As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.