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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

“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

“That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far."”

Plutarch

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

“The general himself ought to be such a one as can at the same time see both forward and backward.”

Plutarch

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

“Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."”

Plutarch

Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Great
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn a limp.”

Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

Moralia, Of the Training of Children

“Rest gives relish to labour.”

Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

Moralia, Of the Training of Children

“In his house he had a large looking-glass, before which he would stand and go through his exercises.”

Plutarch

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

“Simonides calls painting silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting.”

Plutarch

Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or Learned, 3
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Remember what Simonides said,—that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.”

Plutarch

Rules for the Preservation of Health, 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“It is a difficult thing for a man to resist the natural necessity of mortal passions.”

Plutarch

Of those whom God is slow to punish
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.”

Plutarch

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

“No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.”

Plutarch

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

“An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.”

Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

Moralia, Of the Training of Children

“There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.”

Plutarch

Of those whom God is slow to punish
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Euripides was wont to say, "Silence is an answer to a wise man."”

Plutarch

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

“All men whilst they are awake are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.”

Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

Of Superstition.
Attributed to Heraclitus, Frag. 89
Moralia, Others

“He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.”

Plutarch livre Œuvres morales

Of Garrulity.
Attributed to Hesiod, Frag. 219
Moralia, Others

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