Plutarch Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• 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",

• Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

  Plutarch

  Luxury, Mind, Use

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.280, Cosimo, Inc.

• It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.

  Plutarch

  Real, Character, Men

• Beauty is the flower of virtue.

  Plutarch

  Beauty, Flower, Virtue

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.3173, Delphi Classics

• For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men, People

• A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

  Plutarch

  Reality, Vices, Virtue

• God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

  Plutarch

  God, Needs, Want

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.280, Cosimo, Inc.

• There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

  Plutarch

  Men, Political, Politics

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.478, 谷月社

• The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

  Plutarch

  Men, Discovery, Vices

  Plutarch (2010). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

• It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.

  Plutarch

  Writing, Character, Battle

• It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

  Plutarch

  Thinking, Virtue, Admirer

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