Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. Plutarch on music
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. Plutarch on poetry
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 power
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. Plutarch on power
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 wisdom
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. Plutarch on wisdom
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. Plutarch on perseverance
Philosophy is the art of living. Plutarch on philosophy
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 religion
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. Plutarch on vice