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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

“Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"”

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32 Dionysius
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“Thus they let their anger and fury take from them the sense of humanity, and demonstrated that no beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.”

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"The Life of Cicero"

“Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me."”

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50 Alcibiades
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said, "I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot."”

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Of Agesilaus the Great
Laconic Apophthegms

“Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?" Antagoras replied, "Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?"”

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46 Antigonus I
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.”

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

“Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.”

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Plutarch livre Parallel Lives

Demosthenes and Cicero, sec. 3
Parallel Lives

“Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.”

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Plutarch livre Parallel Lives

Aemilius, sec. 27
Parallel Lives

“He said that in his whole life he most repented of three things: one was that he had trusted a secret to a woman; another, that he went by water when he might have gone by land; the third, that he had remained one whole day without doing any business of moment.”

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

“You speak truth," said Themistocles; "I should never have been famous if I had been of Seriphus; nor you, had you been of Athens.”

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Life of Themistocles

“Said Periander, "Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage."”

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The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, 14
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Lamachus chid a captain for a fault; and when he had said he would do so no more, "Sir," said he, "in war there is no room for a second miscarriage." Said one to Iphicrates, "What are ye afraid of?" "Of all speeches," said he, "none is so dishonourable for a general as ‘I should not have thought of it.'"”

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52 Iphicrates
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.”

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

“What spectator… would not exclaim… that through Fortune the foreign host was prevailing beyond its deserts, but through Virtue the Hellenes were holding out beyond their ability? And if the ones (i. e., the enemy) gains the upper hand, this will be the work of Fortune or of some jealous deity or of divine retribution; but if the others (i. e., the Greeks) prevail, it will be Virtue and daring, friendship and fidelity, that will win the guerdon of victory? These were, in fact, the only support that Alexander had with him at this time, since Fortune had put a barrier between him and the rest of his forces and equipment, fleets, horse, and camp. Finally, the Macedonians routed the barbarians, and, when they had fallen, pulled down their city on their heads.”

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Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

On the Fortune of Alexander, II, 344 e-f, Loeb
Moralia, Others

“T is a wise saying, Drive on your own track.”

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Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

Moralia, Of the Training of Children

“Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.”

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Platonic Questions, viii, 4
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The most perfect soul, says Heraclitus, is a dry light, which flies out of the body as lightning breaks from a cloud.”

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

“When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I 'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living."”

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Of Plistarchus
Laconic Apophthegms

“Marius said, "I see the cure is not worth the pain."”

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

“Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.”

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

“It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.”

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

“To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.”

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

“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.”

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Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

Moralia, Of the Training of Children
Variante: The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

“What meal is not expensive? That for which no animal is put to death. … one participating of feeling, of seeing, of hearing, of imagination, and of intellection; which each animal hath received from Nature for the acquiring of what is agreeable to it, and the avoiding what is disagreeable.”

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Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

II, 3
Moralia, Of Eating of Flesh

“I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow."”

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

“And it is said that when he took his seat for the first time under the golden canopy on the royal throne, Demaratus the Corinthian, a well-meaning man and a friend of Alexander's, as he had been of Alexander's father, burst into tears, as old men will, and declared that those Hellenes were deprived of great pleasure who had died before seeing Alexander seated on the throne of Dareius.”

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Plutarch livre Parallel Lives

Alexander, 37, 7 (Loeb)
Parallel Lives

“Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares.”

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Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

Moralia, Of the Training of Children

“And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!"”

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Pleasure not attainable according to Epicurus, 11
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Pyrrhus said, "If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone."”

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47 Pyrrhus
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.”

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

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