Plutarch ( 10 of 35 )
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that read more
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant
falling.
[Lat., Gutta cavat lapidem non read more
The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant
falling.
[Lat., Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed saepe cadendo.]
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting
solidity or exactness of beauty.
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting
solidity or exactness of beauty.
Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece.
Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece.
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for read more
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is
at least human.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is
at least human.
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of
the world.
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of
the world.
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best
defence against a knave.
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best
defence against a knave.
. . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and
well made. "Yet," read more
. . . And 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."
