Plutarch quotes - Page : 5

" When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action. " # Action

" The wildest colts make the best horses. " # Children # Love # Marriage

" Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied. " # Contentment # Poverty and The Poor # Wealth

" Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause. " # Courage # Death and Dying # Fear

" Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. " # Courage # Coward and Cowardice # Tolerance

" Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. " # Uncategorised # Philosophers and Philosophy # Ideas

" [Solon] being asked, namely, what city was best to live in, That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers. " # Uncategorised # Cities and City Life # Punishment

" Paulus Aemilius, on taking command of the forces in Macedonia, and finding them talkative and impertinently busy, as though they were all commanders, issued out his orders that they should have only ready hands and keen swords, and leave the rest to him. " # Uncategorised # Leaders and Leadership # Business

" They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in view, something which leaves off as soon as that end is reached. It is not a public chore, to be got over with. It is a way of life. It is the life of a domesticated political and social creature who is born with a love for public life, with a desire for honor, with a feeling for his fellows; and it lasts as long as need be. " # Uncategorised # Politicians and Politics # Love

" Also the two-edged tongue of mighty Zeno, who, Say what one would, could argue it untrue. " # Uncategorised # Argument # Death and Dying