Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

Plutarch's Popular Quotes

Either is both, and Both is neither.

- Plutarch

From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules."

- Plutarch

The great god Pan is dead.

- Plutarch

Barba non facit philosophum

- Plutarch

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

- Plutarch

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

- Plutarch

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

- Plutarch

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

- Plutarch

For the wise man, every day is a festival.

- Plutarch