Plutarch
Plutarch
Plutarch; c. AD 46 – AD 120) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He is classified as a Middle Platonist. Plutarch's surviving works were written in Greek, but intended for both Greek and Roman readers...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
fate destiny drag
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
education teacher appreciation
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
friendship best-friend adversity
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
adversity men prosperity
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
life success courage
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
may fault-finding faults
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
life men childhood
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
determination rocks water
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
loss matter citizens
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
character long habit
Character is simply habit long continued.
inspirational practice inspire
Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
inspirational mind analogies
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
courage causes
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
change fate decay
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.