Plutarch Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

  Plutarch

  Friends, Pain, True Friend

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

• It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

  Plutarch

  Character, Giving, Personality

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's Corrected from the Greek”, p.345, Cosimo, Inc.

• For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

  Plutarch

  Anger, Fire, Wrath

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2636, Delphi Classics

• Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

  Plutarch

  Food, Dark, Clouds

• The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

  Plutarch

  Strong, Wine, Men

• Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.

  Plutarch

  Character, Men, Giving

• It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

  Plutarch

  Character, Giving, Flattery

• Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

  Plutarch

  Giving, Serious, Bed

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

• We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.

  Plutarch

  Friends, Pain, Medicine

  Plutarch (1888). “Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto”

• Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.

  Plutarch

  Work, Giving, Ease

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.213, 谷月社

• Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.

  Plutarch

  Greatness, Giving, Mind

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.64, Modern Library

• Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive."

  Plutarch

  Dog, Kings, Giving

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 45 Antigonus I. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

• Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.

  Plutarch

  Men, Thinking, Reflection

  Plutarch (2012). “Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

• To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting.

  Plutarch

  Fighting, Giving, Said

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.221

• As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.

  Plutarch

  Beautiful, Giving, Wish

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