Plutarch Quotes About Gold

Quotes about: Gold

• And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".

  Plutarch

  Kings, Inspiration, Water

  Pleasure not attainable according to Epicurus, 11. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

• Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.

  Plutarch

  Cities, Gold, May

  Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives - Complete”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

• Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.

  Plutarch

  Plato, Rivers, Gold

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's lives”, p.59

• Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

  Plutarch

  Wisdom, Gold, Wealth

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

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