Plutarch Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

  Plutarch

  Life, Animal, Light

  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”

• The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

• To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

  Plutarch

  Life, Men, Childhood

  Plutarch (1832). “Lives of the most select and illustrious characters of antiquity”, p.9

• Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Life, Meditation

• Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

  Plutarch

  Life, Success, Courage

• In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

  Plutarch

  Life, Change, Fate

• The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

  Plutarch

  Life, Men, Measure Of A Man

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

• The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.

  Plutarch

  Life, Pain, Grief

• A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

  Plutarch

  Life, Soul, Mistress

  Plutarch (1834). “Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek; with Notes, Historical & Critical; & a Life of Plutarch”, p.222

• Philosophy is an act of living.

  Plutarch

  Life, Philosophy, Live Life

• We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

  Plutarch

  Life, Nature, Shoes

  "Life of Cato the Censor" by Plutarch, 1st century.

• Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

  Plutarch

  Life, Men, Practice

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.591, 谷月社

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