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“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.”

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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!”

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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

“Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them,—thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.”

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31 Scilurus
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.”

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Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

Moralia, Of the Training of Children

“Alexander said, "I assure you I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion."”

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

“Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.”

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

“And this," said Cæsar, "you know, young man, is more disagreeable for me to say than to do.”

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Plutarch livre Parallel Lives

Parallel Lives, Caesar

“Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive."”

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45 Antigonus I
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“Being nimble and light-footed, his father encouraged him to run in the Olympic race. "Yes," said he, "if there were any kings there to run with me."”

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41 Alexander
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered."”

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Cæsar
Roman Apophthegms

“Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”

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Of Banishment
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

“Themistocles said that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can be shown only by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.”

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Life of Themistocles

“When one asked him what boys should learn, "That," said he, "which they shall use when men."”

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Of Agesilaus the Great
Laconic Apophthegms

“Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.”

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Of Agesilaus the Great
Laconic Apophthegms

“Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.”

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Which are the most crafty, Water or Land Animals?, 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Are you not ashamed to mix tame fruits with blood and slaughter? You are indeed wont to call serpents, leopards, and lions savage creatures; but yet yourselves are defiled with blood, and come nothing behind them in cruelty. What they kill is their ordinary nourishment, but what you kill is your better fare.”

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Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

I, 2
Moralia, Of Eating of Flesh

“The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?"”

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

“Cato the elder wondered how that city was preserved wherein a fish was sold for more than an ox.”

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Cato the Elder
Roman Apophthegms

“Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?"”

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

“It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.”

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Plutarch livre Parallel Lives

Aemilius, sec. 19
Parallel Lives

“Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.”

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

“As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."”

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

“He preferred an honest man that wooed his daughter, before a rich man. "I would rather," said Themistocles, "have a man that wants money than money that wants a man."”

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49 Themistocles
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“I will show," said Agesilaus, "that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places.”

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Of Agesilaus the Great
Laconic Apophthegms

“A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."”

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33 Archelaus
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only."”

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

“When the candles are out all women are fair.”

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Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

Conjugal Precepts
Moralia, Others

“What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel.”

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

“Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.”

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

“Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.”

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

“As those persons who despair of ever being rich make little account of small expenses, thinking that little added to a little will never make any great sum.”

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Of Man's Progress in Virtue
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.”

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

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