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
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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.
friendship divorce shoes
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''
army law play
The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors
friendship change philosophy
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
inspirational leadership education
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
freedom tyrants economic-inequality
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
beautiful giving wish
As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.
bears man measure misfortune
The measure of a man is way he bears up under misfortune
real excellence goodness
Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.