The Greek biographer, moralist, historian and essayist who has been described as one of the most influential writers who ever lived.
He studied mathematics, physics, medicine, natural science, rhetoric, philosophy, Greek, and Latin literature in 66.
His biographies of others are famous but not much is known about him.
Plutarch is perhaps best known for "Lives and Moralia" a collection of 83 treatises on diverse subjects such as
vegetarianism; superstition; Epicurean, Stoic, and Academic philosophy; dietetics; divine justice; prophecy; demonology;
conjugal relations; family life and mysticism.
His works had strong influence on later writers and the literatures of Europe and even America.
He was very much concerned with men's moral conduct and individual moral guidance in an age when men were losing
their faith in philosophy and religion.
(ca.46 - ca.120)
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
~ Plutarch
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
~ Plutarch
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.
~ Plutarch
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
~ Plutarch
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
~ Plutarch
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
~ Plutarch
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.
~ Plutarch
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
~ Plutarch
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
~ Plutarch
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
~ Plutarch
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
~ Plutarch
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
~ Plutarch
When the candles are out all women are fair.
~ Plutarch
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
~ Plutarch
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
~ Plutarch
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
~ Plutarch
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
~ Plutarch
Character is long-standing habit.
~ Plutarch
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
~ Plutarch
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
~ Plutarch
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
~ Plutarch
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
~ Plutarch
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.
~ Plutarch
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
~ Plutarch
He was a thinker, political figure, educator, and founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought. Known to the Chinese as
Master Kong and to the rest of the world as Confucius, he created a philosophy based on virtue and believed in honesty,
respect, sincerity.
Confucius taught that it was not the satisfaction of the senses in the present moment that would bring true happiness,
but well-planned actions and the helping of fellow man which mattered most.
(551-479 BCE)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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