Inspirational Quotations by Plutarch (Ancient Greek Historian)

Time is the wisest of all counselors.
—Plutarch
Topics: Time Management, Time

Prosperity is not just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
—Plutarch
Topics: Friendship, Adversity

To find fault, is easy; to do better may be difficult.
—Plutarch
Topics: Difficulty

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

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

The correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting — no more — and then it motivates one towards originality and instills the desire for truth.
—Plutarch
Topics: Education, Thought, Intelligence

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in adversity.
—Plutarch
Topics: Adversity, Success & Failure, Prosperity

I wish you all very good lives.
—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

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