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
art poetry greek
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
inspirational empathy advice
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
work men criticism
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.
time counselor wisest
Time is the wisest of all counselors.
kindness philosophical men
The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.
perseverance taken persistence
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
horse children rooms
Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.
real people liberty
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
latin
Barba non facit philosophum
friends pain true-friend
The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.
positive reality achievement
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
weed garden soil
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
wise mistake character
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.
men roots heaven
For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.