Quotes by Plutarch

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I...

#Friendship

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart

#God

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

#Friends

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

#Friends

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

#Happiness

Themosticles said The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern...

#Government

Socrates said, Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat...

#Drink

Time is the wisest of all counselors

#Time

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it,...

#Life

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

#Artist

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

#Plutarch

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks...

#Plutarch