Quotes by : Plutarch

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood....

No man ever wetted clay and then left it as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

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.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.....

... man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what....

Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.

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

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.....