Quotes by Plutarch

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

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

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

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

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

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

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.