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
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.

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
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)
“Lysander said, "Where the lion's skin will not reach, it must be pieced with the fox's."”
60 Lysander
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
“From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules."”
Life of Theseus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Life of Phocion
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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.”
Life of Demosthenes
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Of Isis and Osiris
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
54 Iphicrates
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
“Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.”
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.”
Plutarch livre Parallel Lives
Parallel Lives, Pericles
Plutarch livre Parallel Lives
Aemilius, sec. 12
Parallel Lives
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."”
Life of Agesilaus II
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Of the Love of Wealth
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Of Hearing, 6
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Of Bashfulness
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Plutarch livre Parallel Lives
Sertorius, sec. 16
Parallel Lives
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.”
Of Isis and Osiris
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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.”
Plutarch livre Parallel Lives
Parallel Lives, Pericles
Life of Alexander
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.”
Plutarch livre Œuvres morales
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
Plutarch livre Parallel Lives
Timoleon, sec. 6
Parallel Lives
Plutarch livre Parallel Lives
What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?
Timoleon
Parallel Lives
Plutarch livre Parallel Lives
Eumenes, sec. 9
Parallel Lives