Plutarch Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

  Plutarch

  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "The Education of Children",

• As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.

  Plutarch

  Lying, Desert, World

  Parallel Lives "Aemilius Paulus" sec. 5

• We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

  Plutarch

  Happiness, Lying, Men

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.303

• Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

  Plutarch

  Lying, Men, Vices

• Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).

  Plutarch

  Liars, Lying

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 485-487, 1922.

• Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

  Plutarch

  Lying, Speech, Figures

  "Life of Themistocles". Book by Plutarch,

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