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Quotes by Plutarch

2 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

When I had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance to anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedemonians, never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.— filed under Anger

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.— filed under Courage