Source: Plutarch's Lives
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Famous Plutarch Quotes
“To please the many is to displease the wise.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography
“Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.”
“It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.”
Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography
“Silence is an answer to a wise man.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.”
“Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)