Plutarch Quotes About Labour

Quotes about: Labour

• The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.

  Plutarch

  Kings, Future, Sweat

• Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.

  Plutarch

  Sea, Wealth, Enough

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

• Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

  Plutarch

  Lamps, Argument, Witness

  "Life of Demosthenes". Book by Plutarch,

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