Plutarco: Frasi in inglese

Plutarco era biografo, scrittore e filosofo greco antico. Frasi in inglese.
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“Impossible questions require impossible answers.”

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Alexander, sec. 54
Parallel Lives

“...they perceived that no beginnings should be considered too small to be capable of quickly becoming great by uninterrupted endurance and having no obstacle to their growth by reason of being despised.”

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sec. 4
Parallel Lives, Caesar

“Dost thou, fair Sikyon, hesitate to raise
A fitting tomb to thy lost hero's praise?
Curst be the land, nay, curst the air or wave
That grudges room for thy Aratus' grave.”

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Aratus, sec. 53
Parallel Lives

“A dead man does not bite.”

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Pompeius, sec. 76
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“Twas not that life or death itself was good,
That these heroic spirits shed their blood:
This was their aim, and this their latest cry,
'Let us preserve our honour, live or die.'”

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Pelopidas, sec. 1
Parallel Lives

“Far from the battle, on that fatal day
Beside Thermodon may I flee away,
Or view it as an eagle from the sky;
There shall the vanquished weep, the victor die.”

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Demosthenes, sec. 19
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“But for my own part I believe that for the enjoyment of true happiness, which depends chiefly upon a man's character and disposition, it makes no difference whether he be born in an obscure state or of an ill-favoured mother, or not.”

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Demosthenes, sec. 1
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“I myself had rather excel others in excellency of learning than in greatness of power.”

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Alexander, sec. 7
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“But those who are careless of accuracy in small things soon begin to neglect the most important.”

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Aemilius, sec. 3
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“The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.”

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