Plutarch People Quotations

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.

Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people,... he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?

I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

Such power I gave the people as might do, Abridged not what they had, now lavished new, Those that were great in wealth and high in place My counsel likewise kept from all disgrace. Before them both I held my shield of might, And let not either touch the other's right.