Plutarque citations

πλοῦτον δὲ γυναικὸς αἱρεῖσθαι μὲν πρὸ ἀρετῆς ἢ γένους ἀφιλότιμον καὶ ἀνελεύθερον, ἀρετῇ δὲ καὶ γένει προσόντα φεύγειν ἀβέλτερον.
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Œuvres morales, Dialogue sur l'amour (Erotikos)

Source: The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives

Parallel Lives, Caesar

Moralia, Of the Training of Children
Variante: The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

8
Moralia, Of the Training of Children

I, 4
Moralia, Of Eating of Flesh
Contexte: For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy. And then we fancy that the voices it utters and screams forth to us are nothing else but certain inarticulate sounds and noises, and not the several deprecations, entreaties, and pleadings of each of them.

Of Hearing, 6
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Parallel Lives

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

Of Demaratus
Laconic Apophthegms

Lycurgus, sec. 8. The bolded phrase is often quoted in a paraphrase by Ugo Foscolo: "Wealth and poverty are the oldest and most deadly ailments of all republics" (Le ricchezze e la povertà sono le più antiche e mortali infermità delle repubbliche), Monitore Italiano, 5 February 1798.
Parallel Lives

Life of Themistocles