Plutarch Quotes

The wildest colts make the best horses.
- Plutarch

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
- Plutarch

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
- Plutarch

A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
- Plutarch

Themistocles said, “The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.”
- Plutarch

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
- Plutarch