Plutarch S Lives Quotes

#1. If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.

Mortimer J. Adler

#2. To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days

Plutarch

#3. A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

Plutarch

#4. All religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human beings.

Dalai Lama

#5. The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.

Plutarch

#6. It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.

Plutarch

#7. You can't find peace by hiding from life

Nicole Kidman

#8. I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.

John F. Kennedy

#9. Without heads, where might they keep their minds, if they have them?" Kebes put in. "In their livers, obviously," Sokrates said.

Jo Walton

#10. To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.

Harry Chapin

#11. But ignorance of divine revelation affects all of thought and life, from one's view toward history and philosophy, to one's interpretation of music and literature, to one's understanding of mathematics and physics.

Vincent Cheung

#12. We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.

Suzanne Collins

#13. My faux school uniform is like a power suit, my armor, a super hero's costume that makes me feel on top of the world. Short skirt, white blouse, knee-highs and Mary Janes. When I wear this, I make the rules.

Lauren Blakely

#14. Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Plutarch

#15. Corpus bones, I thought. To be wedded to this perfumed prig with his mouth in a knot and a frown always on his face!

Karen Cushman

#16. These bloody days have broken my heart.

Thomas Wyatt

#17. A dead heart is a dead life; keep your heart alive; let your heart beat for something unique!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#18. All beyond this is portentous and fabulous, inhabited by poets and mythologers, and there is nothing true or certain.

Plutarch

#19. Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.

Jimmy Buffett

#20. Succes has many parents but, failure is an orphan.

Obameso Sunkanmi

#21. Dante 19 had it wrong. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here leads to awakening, not to the realms of hell.

Ken McLeod

#22. love is not safe

Oscar Wilde

#23. She'd once been appalled to hear of women claiming PMS as a defense for murder. Now she understood. She could happily murder someone today! In fact, she felt like there should be some sort of recognition for her remarkable strength of character that she didn't.

Liane Moriarty