For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.
- Plutarch
More Quotes By Plutarch
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but... The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and
money began to play an important part in determining
elections.... When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, “Action,” and which was the... Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and... What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Barba non facit philosophum
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not... To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the... No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
Time is the wisest of all counselors.
Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
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