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

- Plutarch

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

- Plutarch

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

- Plutarch

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.

- Plutarch

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

- Plutarch

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

- Plutarch

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

- Plutarch

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

- Plutarch

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

- Plutarch

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

- Plutarch