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Plutarch Quotes

Total quotes: 14
“Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.”
— Plutarch, Untitled
Tagged: Listening, How To Be A Better Human, How To Analyze Conversations
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
— Plutarch, On Vessels Filled and Fires Kindled
Tagged: Mind, Knowledge, Creativity, Wisdom
“As long as there are others who would gladly choose your fate, even including our present state [the death of a child], it is awful of you, the bearer of that fate, to complain and grumble.”
— Plutarch, Essays (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Life
“Whenever I throw him at wrestling he beats me by arguing that he was never down, and he can even make the spectators believe.”
— Anthony Podlecki, Plutarch, Perikles and his Circle
Tagged: Life
“When people see a friend's house on fire, they rush to put it out, when a friend's mind is on fire, they bring fuel.”
— Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
Tagged: Life
“You will regard them as doing what comes naturally to them (as dogs are when they bark).”
— Plutarch, Essays (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Life
“When trouble does not ensue immediately for bad people after any given crime, but comes later, they classify it as a piece of bad luck...”
— Euripides, Essays
Tagged: Life
“'How shall I defend myself against my enemy?'

'By proving yourself good and honorable.'”
— Diogenes, Plutarch, Conflict, Community, and Honor
Tagged: Honor
“Don't be alarmed: justice won't come up to you or any other unjust person and stab you in the guts. No, it comes with silent and steady trend and grabs criminals when they don't expect it.”
— Euripides, Essays
Tagged: Life
“Laomedon practiced long distance running by the advice of his physicians to ward off some disease of the spleen and then, after restoring his health in this way, entered the great games and became one of the best runners in the long course.”
— Plutarch, Complete Works
Tagged: strength
“You have obtained Sparta, so do it credit.”
— Euripides, Essays
Tagged: Life
“In Greece, wise men spoke on public affairs but fools decided them.”
— Plutarch, The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives
Tagged: Life
“Wise men are able to make a fitting use of their enemies.”
— Plutarch, Complete Works
Tagged: Opposites, Use Against
“Some of Alexander the Great's successors resembled him 'with their purpose customers, their bodyguards, the way they copied the poise of his neck which as tilted slightly to the left, and their loud voices in conversation, but Pyrrhus, and Pyrrhus alone, in arms and action.'”
— Plutarch, The Rise of Rome (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Life
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