Famous Quotes by Plutarch

Below are famous quotes by Plutarch - Greek biographer & moralist (46 AD - 120 AD).

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

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

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.

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