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Plutarch Quotes - Page 13

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Courage, Fear, Justice

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

Needs, Youth, Pleasure

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

Would Be, Ifs

Plutarch (2016). “Hellenistic Lives: including Alexander the Great”, p.19, Oxford University Press

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Friendship, Strong, Money

To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting.

Fighting, Giving, Said

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.221

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

Lying, Speech, Figures

"Life of Themistocles". Book by Plutarch,

Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).

Liars, Lying

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 485-487, 1922.

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

Moving, Passion, Men

"Parallel Lives: Demosthenes and Cicero". Book by Plutarch. Section 3,

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.

House, Humanity, Temples

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.62

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

Giving, Serious, Bed

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

When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.

Men, Space, Goal

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.29

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.

Math, Oil, Fire

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

Feet, Age, Fool

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.29

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

Might, Wells, Breaths

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.27

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good

Pain, Mean, Occupation

Plutarch (1861). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's”, p.319

After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered.

Saws, Firsts, Assault

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.248

One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.

Men, People, Asia

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.69

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

Men, Elephants, Solemnity

Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Miscellanies and Essays”

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

Wise, Politics, Matter

Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.146, 谷月社

To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.

Mean, Son, Birth

Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2166, Delphi Classics

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

Freedom, Enemy, Conquer

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

Anger, Men, Angry Man

Plutarch (1704). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.56

He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.

Traitor, Hated, Treason

Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne (1873). “Plutarch's Lives Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Historical and Critical, and a Life of Plutarch”, p.74

Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

Encouragement, Children, Mean

The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

Mountain, Made, Mice

Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.814, 谷月社

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