Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
PlutarchThe poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
PlutarchThe mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
PlutarchTags: thinking education mind curiosity mentoring
I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being: who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, perception and with voice.
…but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born in to the world to enjoy.
It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
PlutarchTo be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days
PlutarchIn a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.
PlutarchTo find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
PlutarchBeing conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.
PlutarchAn imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
PlutarchTags: political-philosophy poverty republic
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