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

"What we change inwardly will change outer reality."

- Plutarch

"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

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

- 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

"A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service."

- Plutarch

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

- Plutarch

"For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow."

- Plutarch

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

- Plutarch

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

- Plutarch

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

- Plutarch

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

- Plutarch

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."

- Plutarch