Quotes by : Plutarch

Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder....

It is a hard matter my fellow citizens to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

Prosperity is not just scale adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

For fortune having hitherto seconded him in his designs, made him resolute and firm in his opinions,....

For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice;....

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

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn....

Character is long-standing habit.

When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do....