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Famous Plutarch Quotes
Source: Plutarch's Morals
Source: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)
“Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
Source: Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto
“What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.”
“Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.”
Source: Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of
“I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.”