Плутарх: Цитаты на английском языке

Плутарх было древнегреческий философ, биограф, моралист. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far."”

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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.”

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

“When he was in great prosperity, and courted by many, seeing himself splendidly served at his table, he turned to his children and said: "Children, we had been undone, if we had not been undone."”

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Life of Themistocles

“And when the physician said, "Sir, you are an old man," "That happens," replied Pausanias, "because you never were my doctor."”

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Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax
Laconic Apophthegms

“When Alexander asked Diogenes whether he wanted anything, "Yes," said he, "I would have you stand from between me and the sun."”

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

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

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

“About Pontus there are some creatures of such an extempore being that the whole term of their life is confined within the space of a day; for they are brought forth in the morning, are in the prime of their existence at noon, grow old at night, and then die.”

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Consolation to Apollonius

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

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Plutarch книга Moralia

Moralia, Of the Training of Children

“Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter articulated next summer.”

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Plutarch книга Moralia

Of Man's Progress in Virtue
Moralia, Others

“Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.”

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Cicero
Roman Apophthegms

“Rest gives relish to labour.”

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Moralia, Of the Training of Children

“When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets."”

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62 Eudæmonidas
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“Themistocles said to Antiphales, "Time, young man, has taught us both a lesson."”

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Life of Themistocles

“Cæsar said to the soothsayer, "The ides of March are come;" who answered him calmly, "Yes, they are come, but they are not past."”

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Plutarch книга Parallel Lives

Parallel Lives, Caesar

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

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

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

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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.”

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

“He that first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defense against a knave, was but an ill teacher, advising us to commit wickedness to secure ourselves.”

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Plutarch книга Moralia

Of Bashfulness; on Zeno
Moralia, Others

“When asked why he parted with his wife, Cæsar replied, "I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected."”

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Plutarch книга Parallel Lives

Parallel Lives, Caesar

“A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.”

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Plutarch книга Parallel Lives

Timoleon, sec. 6
Parallel Lives