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.Collection: Power
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.Collection: Courage
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.Collection: Intelligence
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.Collection: Wisdom
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.Collection: Men
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.Collection: Courage
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.Collection: Inspirational
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.Collection: Knowledge
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.Collection: Great
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.Collection: Good
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.Collection: Happiness
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.Collection: Health
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.Collection: Chance
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.Collection: Friendship
The wildest colts make the best horses.Collection: Best
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.Collection: Poetry
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.Collection: Education
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.Collection: Inspirational
Barba non facit philosophumCollection: Latin
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.Collection: Freedom
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.Collection: Motivation
The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.Collection: God
Time is the wisest of all counselors.Collection: Time
The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.Collection: Perseverance
Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!Collection: Gratitude
To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.Collection: Failure
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.Collection: Real
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.Collection: Inspirational
Instead of using medicine, better fast today.Collection: Medicine
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.Collection: May
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.Collection: Reality
To please the many is to displease the wise.Collection: Wise
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.Collection: Learning
Character is simply habit long continued.Collection: Perseverance
It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy isCollection: Enemy
If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.Collection: Hate
Silence is an answer to a wise man.Collection: Wise
Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.Collection: Fashion
For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.Collection: Eye
A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.Collection: Art
So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.Collection: Long
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'Collection: Inspiration
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?Collection: Thinking
Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.Collection: Talking
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.Collection: Men
Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.Collection: Lamps
As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.Collection: Children
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.Collection: Happiness
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 from an overweening appetite to have it.Collection: Thinking