The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch quote The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
Plutarch quote The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch quote Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Plutarch quote 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.
Plutarch quote Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavour to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
Plutarch quote Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Plutarch quote Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are.
Plutarch quote Biography
Greek philosopher, 46-120
