Plutarch (45–120,) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He is considered today to be a Middle Platonist.
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He made the city Athens, great as it was when he took it, the greatest and richest of all cities, and grew to be superior in power to kings and tyrants. Some of these actually appointed him guardian of their sons, but he did not make his estate a single drachma greater than it was when his father left it to him.
—Plutarch
I wish you all very good lives.
—Plutarch
Prosperity is not just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
—Plutarch
Topics: Adversity, Friendship
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
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
—Plutarch
Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
—Plutarch
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in adversity.
—Plutarch
Topics: Success & Failure, Adversity, Prosperity
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
—Plutarch
Time is the wisest of all counselors.
—Plutarch
Topics: Time Management, Time
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