Occupation: Biographer Birth: 45 Death: 120
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..
Come back with your shield - or on it.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks..
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world..
The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling..
Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage..
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly..
Character is simply habit long continued..
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to s….
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….
A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence.".
Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs..
It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty..
Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces..
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself..
As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He ….
He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise fro….
Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted..