It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

— Plutarch

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

— Plutarch

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

— Plutarch

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.

— Plutarch

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

— Plutarch

... man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what he naturally is not, by vicious habit; and that again on the other side, he is civilized and grows gentle by a change of place, occupation, and manner of life, as beasts themselves that are wild by nature, become tame and tractable by housing and gentler usage...

— Plutarch

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

— Plutarch

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

— Plutarch

Neither blame nor praise yourself.

— Plutarch

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

— Plutarch