"Parallel Lives" Quotes

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Character is simply habit long continued.

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

Great men are not always wise.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

The whole life of philosophers is the meditation of death.