Plutarch Quotes About Friends

Quotes about: Friends

• I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Change, Philosophy

• The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

  Plutarch

  Friends, Pain, True Friend

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

• A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

  Plutarch

  Friends, Needs, Should

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

• Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.

  Plutarch

  Friends, Real, Rivalry

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

• So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

  Plutarch

  Friends, Experts, Affection

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

• We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.

  Plutarch

  Friends, Pain, Medicine

  Plutarch (1888). “Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto”

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