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Plutarch10 quotes
The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. — PlutarchWhen the candles are out all women are fair. — Plutarch · 100It is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad. — Plutarch · 119This gives a great field for the flatterer in friendship, who finds a wonderful base of operations in our self-love, which makes each person his own first and greatest flatterer. — Plutarch · 100A 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." — Plutarch · 119He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach. — PlutarchAll 10 quotes →Anacharsis2 quotes
Written laws are like spiders' webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful. — AnacharsisAnacharsis laughed at Solon for imagining the dishonesty and covetousness of his countrymen could be restrained by written laws, which were like spiders' webs, and would catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but easily be broken by the mighty and rich. — Anacharsis · 119Solon2 quotes
Old to grow, but ever learning. — Solon · 119Many evil men are rich, and good men poor,
But we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches. — Solon · 560 BCBion of Borysthenes1 quote
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. — Bion of Borysthenes · 100Cato the Elder1 quote
Carthage must be destroyed. — Cato the Elder · 149 BCHeraclitus1 quote
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. — HeraclitusJulius Caesar1 quote
I came, I saw, I conquered. — Julius Caesar · 46 BCMarcus Licinus Crassus1 quote
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. — Marcus Licinus Crassus · 119Pericles1 quote
Wait for the wisest of all counsellors, Time. — Pericles · 100Pyrrhus1 quote
One more such victory over the Romans and we are lost. — Pyrrhus · 279 BCSocrates1 quote
I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world. — Socrates · 1783Themistocles1 quote
Tuning the lyre and handling the harp are no accomplishments of mine, but rather taking in hand a city that was small and inglorious and making it glorious and great. — Themistocles · 119