Plutarch

Biographer

Plutarch was a Greek biographer, essayist, and philosopher best known for Parallel Lives. His writings strongly influenced later European biography, moral philosophy, and political thought.

Books by Plutarch

Lives
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Moralia
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Plutarchi Vitae parallelae
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Quotes by Plutarch

For fortune having hitherto seconded him in his designs, made him resolute and firm in his opinions, and the boldness of his temper raised a sort of passion in him for surmounting difficulties; as if it were not enough to be always victorious in the field, unless places and seasons and nature herself submitted to him.
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A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, Come and get them.
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It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. —For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. —For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.
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For fortune having hitherto seconded him in his designs, made him resolute and firm in his opinions, and the boldness of his temper raised a sort of passion in him for surmounting difficulties; as if it were not enough to be always victorious in the field, unless places and seasons and nature herself submitted to him.
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While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, Come and get them.
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It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
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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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