Quotes by Plutarch

Time is the wisest of all counselors. >>

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is >>

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongi >>

Quotations about Silence

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but >>

The man who does not understand your silence will probably not underst >>

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. >>

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

Plutarch