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
produces richest weeds
The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds
positive reality achievement
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
leisure should elders
Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!
fitness sweet sauce
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
pennies doe needs
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
art poetry greek
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
integrity men noble-man
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
dolphins philosopher granted
...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage
harmony harmony-in-music discord
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
rage said ifs
Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses.
veils mortals
I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.
nice fall maturity
What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?
wickedness wonderful miserable
Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
encouragement children mean
Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.