Author of quotes: Plutarch

If you are friends with a lame man, and you yourself begin to limp.

To do bad deeds is low, to do good when it is not dangerous is a common thing. A good person is one who does great and noble deeds, even if he risks everything.

Sometimes it is not without benefit to silence the offender with a witty repubmission; such a rebit should be brief and not reveal any irritation or rage, but let her be able to bite a little with a calm smile, returning the blow; how arrows fly away from a solid object back to the one who sent them. and the insult seems to fly away from the clever and self-possessing speaker back and fall into the insulter.

A few vices are enough to overshadow many virtues.

Do not talk about your happiness with a person who is much more unhappy than you.

The most loved is a man who, being the most powerful, does not inspire fear.

Traitors betray themselves first of all.

Just as crows fly to peck out the eyes of the dead, so flatterers, obsessing, the wealth of the unreasonable is plundered.

Drinking poison from a golden cup and taking an insidious advice from a friend are the same thing.

No one leaves the clay, mixing it, in the hope that all the bricks form somehow on their own.

War is evil; it is carried out with the help of great injustices and violence, but for honest people and in war there are some laws. You cannot chase victory if the benefits that it gives are acquired through baseness and crime.

That's among the worst of animals amenable to taming a timid and cowardly, and noble - brave and trusting and therefore do not run from human affection.

Pessaries Skopas, when he asked some redundant and useless thing out of his house furniture, said, "But it makes us happy it is unnecessary, not that all necessary."

Honors change manners.