 Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it arises from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
– Plutarch |
Category Archives: Plutarch
Plutarch – Blemishes in the picture
| As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish them to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.
– Plutarch |
Plutarch – Perseverance is more prevailing than violence
| Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
– Plutarch |
Plutarch – No rivalry or jealousy among real friends
| Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.
– Plutarch |
Plutarch – Small matters vex and stir up anger
| As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.
– Plutarch |
Plutarch – An impertinent talker
| If 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 |
Plutarch – The danger of hating your enemies
| If 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 |
Plutarch – No stronger test of a man’s character
| It 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 |
