Plutarch

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

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

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.

Words will build no walls.

It is a difficult task Oh citizens to make speeches to the belly which has no ears.

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

As to Caesar when he was called upon he gave no testimony against Clodius nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime but of the very suspicion of it."

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.

Time is the soul of this world.

Character is simply habit long enough continued.

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

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