Plutarch Quotes

Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.

Words will build no walls.

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

As to Caesar when he was called upon he gave no testimony against Clodius nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime but of the very suspicion of it."

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

Time is the soul of this world.

Character is simply habit long enough continued.