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

— Plutarch

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

— Plutarch

Prosperity is not just scale adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

— Plutarch

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

— Plutarch

Sartorius rose up and spoke to his army, “You see, fellow soldiers, that perseverance is more prevailing than violence, and that many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Assiduity and persistence are irresistible, and in time overthrow and destroy the greatest powers whatever. Time being the favorable friend and assistant of those who use their judgment to await his occasions, and the destructive enemy of those who are unseasonably urging and pressing forward.

— Plutarch

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

— Plutarch

Small, therefore, can we think the progress we have made, as long as our admiration for those who have done noble things is barren, and does not of itself incite us to imitate them.

— Plutarch

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

— Plutarch

That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker...

— Plutarch

The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.

— Plutarch