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“When one asked him what boys should learn, "That," said he, "which they shall use when men."”

Plutarch

Of Agesilaus the Great
Laconic Apophthegms

Men , Boy , Learning

“Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.”

Plutarch

Of Agesilaus the Great
Laconic Apophthegms

Children , Horse

“Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.”

Plutarch

Which are the most crafty, Water or Land Animals?, 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Truth

“Are you not ashamed to mix tame fruits with blood and slaughter? You are indeed wont to call serpents, leopards, and lions savage creatures; but yet yourselves are defiled with blood, and come nothing behind them in cruelty. What they kill is their ordinary nourishment, but what you kill is your better fare.”

Plutarch book Moralia

I, 2
Moralia, Of Eating of Flesh

“The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?"”

Plutarch

Life of Pelopidas
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Fight

“Cato the elder wondered how that city was preserved wherein a fish was sold for more than an ox.”

Plutarch

Cato the Elder
Roman Apophthegms

Fish

“Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?"”

Plutarch

On the Tranquillity of the Mind
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

World , Thinking

“It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.”

Plutarch book Parallel Lives

Aemilius, sec. 19
Parallel Lives

“Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.”

Plutarch

Life of Caius Marius
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."”

Plutarch

Platonic Questions, i
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

God

“He preferred an honest man that wooed his daughter, before a rich man. "I would rather," said Themistocles, "have a man that wants money than money that wants a man."”

Plutarch

49 Themistocles
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

Money , Daughters

“I will show," said Agesilaus, "that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places.”

Plutarch

Of Agesilaus the Great
Laconic Apophthegms

Men

“A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."”

Plutarch

33 Archelaus
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

Silence

“Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only."”

Plutarch

On the Tranquillity of the Mind
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Happiness

“When the candles are out all women are fair.”

Plutarch book Moralia

Conjugal Precepts
Moralia, Others

Women

“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.”

Plutarch

Of Fortune
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Learning , Dance

“Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.”

Plutarch

Life of Demosthenes
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.”

Plutarch

Life of Marcellus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“As those persons who despair of ever being rich make little account of small expenses, thinking that little added to a little will never make any great sum.”

Plutarch

Of Man's Progress in Virtue
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Thinking , Personality , Despair

“It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.”

Plutarch

Life of Agesilaus II
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)