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Plutarch Quotes - Page 10

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Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

Games, Achilles, Said

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.208

For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being centred upon the few, the generality were poor and miserable. Honourable pursuits, for which there was no longer leisure, were neglected; the state was filled with sordid business, and with hatred and envy of the rich.

Men, Hands, Envy

Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.450, Modern Library

Painting is silent poetry.

Art, Painting, Silent

Plutarch, John J. Keaney, Robert Lamberton (1996). “Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer”, p.307, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

Men, People, Ruins

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Inspirational, Mind, Needs

Plutarch (2006). “Essays”, p.70, Penguin UK

And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".

Kings, Inspiration, Water

Pleasure not attainable according to Epicurus, 11. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.

Disappointment, Light, Break Off

Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.64

Character is long-standing habit.

Art, Philosophy, Character

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

Kings, Crowns, Sometimes

There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.

Strong, Wine, Men

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Balance, Contentment, Obscurity

As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.

Beautiful, Giving, Wish

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

Friendship, Heart, Men

Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

May, Gains, Strange

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Life, Change, Fate

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

Education, Exercise, Imperfect

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.5

Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.

Men, Rights, House

Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?

Men, Good Man, Battle

Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Lives and Writings”

Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.

Men, Wife, Sparta

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.

Life, Pain, Grief

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Wise, Men, Opinion

Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.352

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

Inspiring, Food, Loss

Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.587, Delphi Classics

Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.

Men, Land, Able

Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.3106, Delphi Classics

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

Veils, Raised, Mortals

Plutarch (1889). “Plutarch's Morals: Theosophical Essays”

While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.

Kings, Army, Greek

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