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Plutarque , né à Chéronée en Béotie vers 46 et mort vers 125, est un philosophe, biographe, moraliste, et penseur majeur de la Rome antique. Grec d'origine, il fut un des précurseurs du courant philosophique nommé le néoplatonisme et s'opposa dans ses traités de morale aux courants stoïciens et épicuriens.

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Plutarque Citations

“Il faut amener les enfants à la pratique du bien par des exhortations, des paroles, et non pas, grands dieux! par des coups et des mauvais traitements.”

Plutarque livre Œuvres morales

δεῖν τοὺς παῖδας ἐπὶ τὰ καλὰ τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων ἄγειν παραινέσεσι καὶ λόγοις, μὴ μὰ Δία πληγαῖς μηδ´ αἰκισμοῖς.
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Œuvres morales, Sur l'éducation des enfants

faute , Dieu , enfants

“Certes, priser dans une femme la richesse plus que la vertu ou la naissance, cela est vil et bas, mais fuir la richesse unie à la vertu et à la naissance, cela est stupide!”

Plutarque livre Œuvres morales

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)

prise de congé , richesse , naissance , femmes

Plutarque: Citations en anglais

“Lysander said, "Where the lion's skin will not reach, it must be pieced with the fox's."”

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60 Lysander
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws."”

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Cicero
Roman Apophthegms

“There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life: "Know thyself," and "Nothing too much;" and upon these all other precepts depend.”

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Consolation to Apollonius

“From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules."”

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Life of Theseus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.”

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

“As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.”

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Life of Theseus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.”

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

“When Hermodotus in his poems described Antigonus as the son of Helios, "My valet-de-chambre," said he, "is not aware of this."”

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Of Isis and Osiris
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“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."”

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54 Iphicrates
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.”

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

“So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.”

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Plutarch livre Parallel Lives

Parallel Lives, Pericles

“Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece."”

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Plutarch livre Parallel Lives

Aemilius, sec. 12
Parallel Lives

“As Cæsar was at supper the discourse was of death,—which sort was the best. "That," said he, "which is unexpected."”

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Cæsar
Roman Apophthegms

“Have in readiness this saying of Solon, "But we will not give up our virtue in exchange for their wealth."”

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How to profit by our Enemies
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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

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

“Said Scopas of Thessaly, "We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things."”

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Of the Love of Wealth
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.”

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

“Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour."”

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Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Xenophanes said, "I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing."”

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

“Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.”

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Plutarch livre Parallel Lives

Sertorius, sec. 16
Parallel Lives

“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?"”

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Rules for the Preservation of Health, 25
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.”

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Of Isis and Osiris
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Philip being arbitrator betwixt two wicked persons, he commanded one to fly out of Macedonia and the other to pursue him.”

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36 Philip
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practise.”

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Plutarch livre Parallel Lives

Parallel Lives, Pericles

“The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.”

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

“Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.”

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Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

Moralia, Of the Training of Children

“Thus our judgments, if they do not borrow from reason and philosophy a fixity and steadiness of purpose in their acts, are easily swayed and influenced by the praise or blame of others, which make us distrust our own opinions.”

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Plutarch livre Parallel Lives

Timoleon, sec. 6
Parallel Lives

“By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?"”

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Plutarch livre Parallel Lives

What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?
Timoleon
Parallel Lives

“Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, "She can choose best," and so took both away with him.”

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Of Lysander
Laconic Apophthegms

“Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.”

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Plutarch livre Parallel Lives

Eumenes, sec. 9
Parallel Lives

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