Plutarch Quotes About Praise

Quotes about: Praise

• To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.

  Plutarch

  Inspiration, Other Worlds, Egypt

• Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

  Plutarch

  Men, Differences, Bravery

• Neither blame or praise yourself.

  Plutarch

  Blame, Praise

• Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

  Plutarch

  Merit, Praise, Greedy

• Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.

  Plutarch

  Sound, Praise

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough (1905). “Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corr. and rev. by William Goodwin, with an introd. by Ralph Waldo Emerson”

• 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

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