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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.

✵ 46 ap. J.-C. – 127  •  Autres noms Plútarchos z Chairóneie
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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

“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)

Plutarque: Citations en anglais

“Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron."”

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44 Antigonus I
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.”

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Plutarch livre Parallel Lives

Lysander, sec. 17
Parallel Lives

“To sing the same tune, as the saying is, is in everything cloying and offensive; but men are generally pleased with variety.”

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Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

Moralia, Of the Training of Children

“Young men," said Cæsar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”

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Cæsar Augustus
Roman Apophthegms

“Why does pouring oil on the sea make it clear and calm? Is it for that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?”

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Symposiacs, book viii. Question IX
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Laughing at his own son, who got his mother, and by his mother's means his father also, to indulge him, he told him that he had the most power of any one in Greece: "For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians, your mother commands me, and you command your mother."”

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Life of Themistocles

“Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.”

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51 Alcibiades
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.”

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Plutarch livre Parallel Lives

Parallel Lives, Caesar

“Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.”

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

“Yet through Alexander (the Great) Bactria and the Caucasus learned to revere the gods of the Greeks … Alexander established more than seventy cities among savage tribes, and sowed all Asia with Greek magistracies … Egypt would not have its Alexandria, nor Mesopotamia its Seleucia, nor Sogdiana its Prophthasia, nor India its Bucephalia, nor the Caucasus a Greek city, for by the founding of cities in these places savagery was extinguished and the worse element, gaining familiarity with the better, changed under its influence.”

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Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

On the Fortune of Alexander, I, 328D, 329A Loeb, F.C. Babbitt
Moralia, Others

“Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he were going to strike, Themistocles said, "Strike, if you will; but hear."”

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Life of Themistocles

“Cato said, "I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is."”

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Political Precepts
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Leo Byzantius said, "What would you do, if you saw my wife, who scarce reaches up to my knees?… Yet," went he on, "as little as we are, when we fall out with each other, the city of Byzantium is not big enough to hold us."”

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Political Precepts
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Anacharsis said a man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible favours and blessings of Fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.”

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The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, 11
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, "Either is both, and Both is neither."”

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35 Philip
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Cæsar and his fortunes in your boat.”

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Plutarch livre Parallel Lives

Parallel Lives, Caesar

“Did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus sups with Lucullus?”

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

“Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.”

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

“Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."”

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56 Phocion
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.”

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

“We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature.”

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Of Eating of Flesh, Tract 1
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“For many, as Cranton tells us, and those very wise men, not now but long ago, have deplored the condition of human nature, esteeming life a punishment, and to be born a man the highest pitch of calamity; this, Aristotle tells us, Silenus declared when he was brought captive to Midas.”

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Consolation to Apollonius

“Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me."”

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

“When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of oratory, he answered, "Action;" and which was the second, he replied, "Action;" and which was the third, he still answered, "Action."”

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Lives of the Ten Orators
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Abstain from beans; that is, keep out of public offices, for anciently the choice of the officers of state was made by beans.”

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Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

Moralia, Of the Training of Children

“He made one of Antipater's recommendation a judge; and perceiving afterwards that his hair and beard were coloured, he removed him, saying, "I could not think one that was faithless in his hair could be trusty in his deeds."”

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40 Philip
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.”

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Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

Moralia, Of the Training of Children

“When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief."”

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34 Philip
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.”

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Symposiacs, book viii. Question IX
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“You ask of me then for what reason it was that Pythagoras abstained from eating of flesh. I for my part do much admire in what humor, with what soul or reason, the first man with his mouth touched slaughter, and reached to his lips the flesh of a dead animal, and having set before people courses of ghastly corpses and ghosts, could give those parts the names of meat and victuals, that but a little before lowed, cried, moved, and saw; how his sight could endure the blood of slaughtered, flayed, and mangled bodies; how his smell could bear their scent; and how the very nastiness happened not to offend the taste, while it chewed the sores of others, and participated of the saps and juices of deadly wounds.”

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Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

I, 1
Moralia, Of Eating of Flesh

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