Plutarch Quotes - Page 9

• La medicina, para producir salud, debe examinar la enfermedad; y la música, para crear armonía, debe investigar la discordia.

  Plutarch

  Music, Medicine, Disease

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• Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.

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  Work, Giving, Ease

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.213, 谷月社

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• As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.

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  Lying, Desert, World

  Parallel Lives "Aemilius Paulus" sec. 5

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• 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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  Brother, Silly, Two

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.195

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• But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.

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  Country, Principles, Unjust

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's Corrected from the Greek”, p.347, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

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  Elude, Instant, Offers

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• Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

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  Memories, Gone, Wonder

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Theosophical Essays”

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• Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.

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  Knavery, Doctrine, Knaves

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.72

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• It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

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  Art, Doe, Succeed

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• A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

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  Believe, Long, Sparta

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.433

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• Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

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  Sabiduría, Justicia, Política

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.748, 谷月社

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• It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

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  God, Belief, Opinion

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• Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

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  Shadow, Action, Said

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.22

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• He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.

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  Sea, Land, Secret

  Plutarch (1844). “Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Historical and Critical; and a Life of Plutarch”, p.182

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• Nada es barato que sea superfluo, pues lo que uno no necesita, se encarece a un céntimo.

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  Doe, Needs, Pennies

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• Plato solía decir a Xenocrates el filósofo, que era áspero y malhumorado, "Buen Xenocrates, sacrificio a las Gracias.

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  Plato, Sacrifice, Grace

  "Life of Marius", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 689, 1922.

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• Julio César se divorció de su esposa Pompeya, pero declaró en el juicio que no sabía nada de lo que se alegaba contra ella y Clodio. Cuando se le preguntó por qué, en ese caso, se había divorciado de ella, respondió: Porque quería tener la castidad de mi esposa libre incluso de sospecha.

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  Esposa, juicios, casos

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• What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

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  Death, Suffering, Do Not Fear

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• Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground.

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  Hombres, Ley, Tierra

  Plutarch (1861). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's”, p.513

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• Custom is almost a second nature.

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  Tradition, Customs

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.269

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• Las madres deben criar y amamantar a sus propios hijos; porque los crían con mayor afecto y con mayor ansiedad, como amándolos de corazón, y por decirlo así, cada centímetro de ellos.

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  Madre, Hijos, Corazón

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• When the candles are out all women are fair.

  Plutarch

  Fairs, Candle

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "Conjugal Precepts",

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• For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being centred upon the few, the generality were poor and miserable. Honourable pursuits, for which there was no longer leisure, were neglected; the state was filled with sordid business, and with hatred and envy of the rich.

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  Men, Hands, Envy

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.450, Modern Library

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• Un cuerpo humano no se parece en nada a los que han nacido para la voracidad; no tiene pico de halcón, ni garra afilada, ni aspereza de dientes, ni fuerza de estómago o calor de digestión que puedan bastar para convertir o alterar una comida tan pesada y carnosa.

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  Vegetarianismo, Dientes, Cuerpo

  Plutarch (1909). "Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin".

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• Cuando le preguntaron a Temístocles si prefería ser Aquiles u Homero, dijo: "¿Qué prefieres ser, un vencedor en los Juegos Olímpicos o el pregonero que proclama quiénes son vencedores?

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  Games, Achilles, Said

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.208

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