Plutarch Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.”

“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.”

“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.”

“For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.”

“Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.”

“If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.”

“It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.”

“Character is simply habit long continued.”

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

“When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.”