01c. 83 ADThe general himself ought to be such a one as can at the same time see both forward and backward.Plutarch / quote ↗
02c. 83 ADStatesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.Plutarch / quote ↗
03c. 83 ADLeo Byzantius said, "What would you do, if you saw my wife, who scarce reaches up to my knees? . . . Yet," went he on, "as little as we are, when we fall out with each other, the city of Byzantium is not big enough to hold us."Plutarch / quote ↗
04c. 83 ADCato said, "I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is."Plutarch / quote ↗
05c. 83 ADIt was the saying of Bion, that though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.Plutarch / quote ↗
06c. 83 ADBoth Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.Plutarch / quote ↗
07c. 83 ADFor to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.Plutarch / quote ↗
09c. 83 ADAs Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."Plutarch / quote ↗
10c. 83 ADPythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.Plutarch / quote ↗
11c. 83 ADLamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of an angry man.Plutarch / quote ↗
12c. 83 ADAs those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.Plutarch / quote ↗
13c. 83 ADTo be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.Plutarch / quote ↗
14c. 83 ADLearn 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.Plutarch / quote ↗
15c. 83 ADIf you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.Plutarch / quote ↗
16c. 83 ADIt is an observation no less just than common, that there is no stronger test of a man's real character than power and authority, exciting, as they do, every passion, and discovering every latent vice.Plutarch / quote ↗
18c. 83 ADIt is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.Plutarch / quote ↗
19c. 83 ADIf we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.Plutarch / quote ↗
20c. 83 ADIf you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.Plutarch / quote ↗
23c. 83 ADCourage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.Plutarch / quote ↗
