The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

- Plutarch

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

- Plutarch

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

- Plutarch

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

- Plutarch

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

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

- Plutarch

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

- Plutarch

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

- Plutarch

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

- Plutarch

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

- Plutarch

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

- Plutarch

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

- Plutarch

Character is simply habit long continued.

- Plutarch

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

- Plutarch

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

- Plutarch

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

- Plutarch

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

- Plutarch

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

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

- Plutarch

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

- Plutarch