Plutarch

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.

That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.

I see the cure is not worth the pain.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.

If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

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

Custom is almost a second nature.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.