30 Quotes By Plutarch

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The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch on best

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Plutarch on change

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

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Plutarch on courage

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

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

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Plutarch on fear

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

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.
Plutarch on future

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Plutarch on god

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

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.
Plutarch on good

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

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch on great

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

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

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Plutarch on inspirational

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch on intelligence

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

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.
Plutarch on learning