Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men’s private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. Plutarch Read Quote
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away. Plutarch Read Quote
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. Plutarch Read Quote
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. Plutarch Read Quote
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. Plutarch Read Quote
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. Plutarch Read Quote