“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.”
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)
“He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.”
Of Garrulity.
Attributed to Hesiod, Frag. 219
Moralia, Others
Life of Phocion
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.”
Of Garrulity
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“He said they that were serious in ridiculous matters would be ridiculous in serious affairs.”
Cato the Elder
Roman Apophthegms
“Custom is almost a second nature.”
Rules for the Preservation of Health, 18
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Life of Coriolanus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Symposiacs, book viii. Question viii
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax
Laconic Apophthegms
Gaius Marcius (Coriolanus) 14.2, translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert, Makers of Rome: Nine Lives by Plutarch (Harmondsworth : Penguin Books 1965) ISBN 0140441581, p. 27
Parallel Lives