Plutarch libro Moralia
I, 4
Moralia, Of Eating of Flesh
Contesto: For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy. And then we fancy that the voices it utters and screams forth to us are nothing else but certain inarticulate sounds and noises, and not the several deprecations, entreaties, and pleadings of each of them.
Plutarch libro Vite parallele
Of Hearing, 6
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Origine: Parallel Lives
Life of Pompey
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Plutarch libro Vite parallele
Lycurgus, sec. 8. The bolded phrase is often quoted in a paraphrase by Ugo Foscolo: "Wealth and poverty are the oldest and most deadly ailments of all republics" (Le ricchezze e la povertà sono le più antiche e mortali infermità delle repubbliche), Monitore Italiano, 5 February 1798.
Parallel Lives
“Lysander said, "Where the lion's skin will not reach, it must be pieced with the fox's."”
60 Lysander
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
“From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules."”
Life of Theseus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Life of Phocion
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Life of Theseus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.”
Life of Demosthenes
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Of Isis and Osiris
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54 Iphicrates
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
“Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.”
Life of Pompey
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