"I will show," said Agesilaus, "that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places."
Plutarch Quotes
b. 120 Greece
Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (c. 46 – 120) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist.
- Greece
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- Philosophers
116 quotes
When one asked him what boys should learn, "That," said he, "which they shall use when men."
"These Macedonians," said he, "are a rude and clownish people, that call a spade a spade."
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
My personal attendant does not think so much of these things as I do.
He said they that were serious in ridiculous matters would be ridiculous in serious affairs.
Lysander said, "Where the lion's skin will not reach, it must be pieced with the fox's."
A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.
Said Periander, "Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage."
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead.
He [Cæsar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
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