It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered..

Beauty is the flower of virtue..

The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it..

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, "Pl….

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm..

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks..

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, bu….

Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun..

While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance….

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world..

When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some smal….

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!".

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale..

Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpe….

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit.".

To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting..

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything..

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble d….

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

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor..

Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill; to behold man's self so unnatur….