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When the candles are out all women are fair. — Plutarch

Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses. — Plutarch

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield
themselves up when taken little by little. — Plutarch

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does. — Plutarch

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. — Plutarch

I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot. — Plutarch

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. — Plutarch

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. — Plutarch

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'. — Plutarch

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly. — Plutarch

I like Plutarch because I've read him forever, and I know that he's incredibly funky, even though his mainstream image is as Mr. Unfunky. — John D'Agata

A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it." — Plutarch

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others. — Plutarch

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable. — Plutarch

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

The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through. — Plutarch

I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician. — Plutarch

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

Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken.
[Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.] — Plutarch

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. — Plutarch

A fool cannot hold his tongue. — Plutarch

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. — Plutarch

Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them. — Plutarch

Must not trouble the gods with our affairs; they take no heed of our angers and disputes.Plutarch.] — Michel De Montaigne

The intimate and meditative form that Plutarch became known for was completely new in his day. — John D'Agata

To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature. — Plutarch

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice. — Plutarch

Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others. — Plutarch

These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade. — Plutarch

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging. — Plutarch

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion. — Plutarch

Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. — James Russell Lowell

As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity. — Plutarch

He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself — Plutarch

Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises. — Plutarch

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length. — Plutarch

All beyond this is portentous and fabulous, inhabited by poets and mythologers, and there is nothing true or certain. — Plutarch

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. — Plutarch

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse. — Plutarch

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
[As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment] — Socrates

When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something. — Plutarch

For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven. — Plutarch

Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil. — Plutarch

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping. — Plutarch

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp. — Plutarch

The wildest colts make the best horses. — Plutarch

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless. — Plutarch

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress. — Plutarch

A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line. — Plutarch

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities. — Plutarch

Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real — Plutarch

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears. — Plutarch

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds. — Plutarch

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature. — Plutarch

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. — Plutarch

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them. — Plutarch

Painting is silent poetry. — Plutarch

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

A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, In silence. — Plutarch

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse. — Plutarch

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

Either is both, and Both is neither. — Plutarch

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright. — Plutarch

Instead of using medicine, better fast today. — Plutarch

[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one. — Plutarch

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man. — Plutarch

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. — Plutarch

When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion. — Plutarch

Knavery is the best defense against a knave. — Plutarch

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature. — Plutarch

Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth. — Plutarch

Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. — Plutarch

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits. — Plutarch

Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye. — Plutarch

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's. — Plutarch

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

If Plutarch is the essayist I want to believe he is, he would want us all to sit in his chair. — John D'Agata

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. — Plutarch

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. — Plutarch

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. — Plutarch

Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young. — Plutarch

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. — Plutarch

Character is inured habit. — Plutarch

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature. — Plutarch

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men. — Plutarch

The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing. — Plutarch

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker. — Plutarch

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war. — Plutarch

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice. — Plutarch

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit. — Plutarch

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance. — Plutarch

The old proverb was now made good, the mountain had brought forth a mouse. — Plutarch

It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is — Plutarch

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. — Plutarch

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy. — Plutarch

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

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny. — Plutarch

Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead. — Plutarch

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into. — Plutarch

King Agis said, The Lacedaemonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are. — Plutarch