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)
“That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far."”
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.”
Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax
Laconic Apophthegms
Life of Alexander
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."”
Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Great
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Consolation to Apollonius
“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
Plutarch livre Œuvres morales
Of Man's Progress in Virtue
Moralia, Others
62 Eudæmonidas
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
Plutarch livre Parallel Lives
Parallel Lives, Caesar
Life of Demosthenes
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Simonides calls painting silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting.”
Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or Learned, 3
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Rules for the Preservation of Health, 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Plutarch livre Œuvres morales
Of Bashfulness; on Zeno
Moralia, Others
Plutarch livre Parallel Lives
Parallel Lives, Caesar
Plutarch livre Parallel Lives
Timoleon, sec. 6
Parallel Lives
“It is a difficult thing for a man to resist the natural necessity of mortal passions.”
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.”
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.”
Of Fortune
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
55 Phocion
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
“An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.”
Plutarch livre Œuvres morales
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
Plutarch livre Œuvres morales
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
“There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.”
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."”
Of Bashfulness
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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