Plutarch Quotes

Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.

It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

Let goodness go with the doing.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

You must do right before you feel good.

The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.

Virtue is its own reward.

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

If we do the right thing with right intent that is actually our success.

All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good