Plutarch

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

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks…

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly…

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other…

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

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent…

The wildest colts make the best horses…

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

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause…

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors…

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I…

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one…

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

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech…

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