Plutarch Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

  Plutarch

  Bird, Righteous, Vulture

• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.

  Plutarch

  Life, Pain, Grief

• He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.

  Plutarch

  Hands, Bird, Fool

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.229

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