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
love-is and-love love-and-trust
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
happiness habit easy
Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.
pennies doe needs
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
wise men ease
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
art philosophy character
Character is long-standing habit.
silence speech seasons
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
blame praise
Neither blame or praise yourself.
fate destiny men
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
answers speech
Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.
fitness sweet sauce
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
uplifting adversity suffering
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
pain littles taste
Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.
dream sleep insomnia
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
kings future sweat
The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.