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Plutarch war ein antiker griechischer Schriftsteller. Er verfasste zahlreiche biographische und philosophische Schriften, die seine umfassende Bildung und Gelehrsamkeit zeigen. In der griechischen Literaturgeschichte gilt Plutarch als einer der wichtigsten Vertreter des Attizismus. Sein bekanntestes Werk, die Parallelbiographien, stellt jeweils die Lebensbeschreibung eines Griechen und eines Römers vergleichend einander gegenüber.

Mitunter wird Plutarch zu den Geschichtsschreibern gerechnet, doch obwohl seine Lebensbeschreibungen oft wertvolles historisches Material enthalten, war er nicht an der Erforschung der Vergangenheit um ihrer selbst willen interessiert, sondern es ging ihm um Charakterstudien und moralische Vorbildlichkeit. Er schilderte bekannte historische Persönlichkeiten, in denen er charakterliche Vorbilder – teils auch abschreckender Art – sah. Durch die Vergleiche versuchte Plutarch das Gemeinsame und Allgemeingültige herauszuarbeiten und dem Leser die Gleichrangigkeit der historischen Leistungen von Griechen und Römern vor Augen zu stellen. Plutarchs Parallelbiographien bilden einen Höhepunkt der antiken Biographik. Als Philosoph bekannte er sich zur Tradition des Platonismus. Wikipedia  

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Plutarch Berühmte Zitate

„„Ich brauche keinen Freund, der sich ändert, wenn ich mich ändere, und der nickt, wenn ich nicke. Mein Schatten macht das viel besser.“

Plutarch

„[ Wein ] ist unter den Getränken das nützlichste, unter den Arzneien das schmackhafteste und unter den Nahrungsmitteln das angenehmste.“

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Moralia I, Vorschriften zur Gesundheit, 19

„Der Wein ist unter den Getränken das nützlichste, unter den Arzneien das schmackhafteste, unter den Nahrungsmitteln das angenehmste.“

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„Erholung ist die Würze der Arbeit.“

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Moralia I, Über die Erziehung der Kinder, 13

Zitate über Leben von Plutarch

„Ein angenehmes und heiteres Leben kommt nicht von äußeren Dingen; der Mensch bringt aus seinem Inneren wie aus einer Quelle Lust und Freude in sein Leben.“

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FREUDE. Bilder und Gedanken. 1999

„Der Anfang des rechten Lebens ist, wie wir glauben, das rechte Hören.“

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Moralia I, Über das Zuhören, Kapitel 18 (Schlußsatz)

„Der Tod ist das Ende aller Dinge des menschlichen Lebens, nur des Aberglaubens nicht.“

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Moralia II, Über den Aberglauben, Kapitel 4

Plutarch Zitate und Sprüche

„Wer wenig bedarf, der kommt nicht in die Lage, auf vieles verzichten zu müssen.“

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Moralia VI, Von der Bezähmung des Zornes, 13 (461c)

„Armut ist keine Schande an sich, sondern wo sie ein Zeichen von Leichtfertigkeit, Mangel an Selbstbeherrschung, Gedankenlosigkeit oder Verschwendung ist.“

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Vergleichung Aristides und Cato d. Ä., Kapitel 4; sprichwörtlich als Armut ist keine Schande

„Der Geist ist nicht wie ein Gefäß, das gefüllt werden soll, sondern wie Holz, das lediglich entzündet werden will.“

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Moralia I, Über das Zuhören, Kapitel 18

„Der Menge gefallen heißt den Weisen missfallen.“

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Moralia I, Über die Erziehung der Kinder, Kapitel 9

„Die Kunst besteht darin, in allem den Mittelweg einzuhalten.“

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Moralia I, Über die Erziehung der Kinder, Kapitel 9

„Dumm und feige ist, wer aus Furcht vor Verlust den Besitz des Nötigen ablehnt.“

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Leben des Solon, Kapitel 7

„Ein lästiger und ungezogener Tischgenosse zerstört alle Lust.“

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Gastmahl der Sieben Weisen, Kapitel 2, 147f

„Einsicht verschafft das Gute, erhält es, mehrt es und macht rechten Gebrauch davon.“

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Trostschrift an Apollonius

„Er schärfte den Seinen ein, kühn mit Verleumdungen zu packen und zu beißen, so dass, auch wenn der Gebissene die Wunde behandelt, die Narbe bleibt.“

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Moralia I, p. 65D, Über den Schmeichler und den Freund, Kapitel 24 / über Medios

„Lieber der Erste hier als der Zweite in Rom!“

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Leben des Cäsar, 11

„Man soll ebensowenig nach den Augen heiraten wie nach den Fingern.“

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Moralia I, Ehevorschriften, 24

„Wenn ich dir etwas gebe, bettelst du umso mehr. Der Erste, der seine Hand auftut, ist schuld an deiner Gemeinheit, weil er dich zum Faulenzer machte.“

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Königs- und Feldherrnsprüche / ein Spartaner zu einem Bettler

Plutarch: Zitate auf Englisch

“If it were not my purpose to combine foreign things with things Greek, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of Greek justice and peace over every nation, I should not content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Greeks should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos…”

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Plutarch buch Moralia

On the Fortune of Alexander, I, 332A Loeb, F.C Babbitt
Moralia, Others

“A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?"”

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63 Pelopidas
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."”

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58 Agis
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan.”

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

“Diogenes the Cynic, when a little before his death he fell into a slumber, and his physician rousing him out of it asked him whether anything ailed him, wisely answered, "Nothing, sir; only one brother anticipates another,—Sleep before Death."”

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Consolation to Apollonius

“Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all.”

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Plutarch buch Parallel Lives

Parallel Lives, Pericles

“He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature.”

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On the Tranquillity of the Mind
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.”

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Plutarch buch Parallel Lives

Demetrius, sec. 1
Parallel Lives

“Socrates said, "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live."”

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How a Young Man ought to hear Poems, 4
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“These Macedonians," said he, "are a rude and clownish people, that call a spade a spade.”

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39 Philip
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.”

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Plutarch buch Parallel Lives

Aemilius, sec. 26
Parallel Lives

“A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedæmonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."”

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Remarkable Speeches
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.”

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

“When he was wounded with an arrow in the ankle, and many ran to him that were wont to call him a god, he said smiling, "That is blood, as you see, and not, as Homer saith, ‘such humour as distils from blessed gods.'"”

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43 Alexander
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“As Athenodorus was taking his leave of Cæsar, "Remember," said he, "Cæsar, whenever you are angry, to say or do nothing before you have repeated the four-and-twenty letters to yourself."”

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Cæsar Augustus
Roman Apophthegms

“Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be,—a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?"”

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48 Themistocles
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“It was the saying of Bion, that though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.”

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Which are the most crafty, Water or Land Animals?, 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.”

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Plutarch buch Moralia

Against Colotes
Moralia, Others

“The correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting — no more — and then it motivates one towards originality and instills the desire for truth. Suppose someone were to go and ask his neighbors for fire and find a substantial blaze there, and just stay there continually warming himself: that is no different from someone who goes to someone else to get to some of his rationality, and fails to realize that he ought to ignite his own flame, his own intellect, but is happy to sit entranced by the lecture, and the words trigger only associative thinking and bring, as it were, only a flush to his cheeks and a glow to his limbs; but he has not dispelled or dispersed, in the warm light of philosophy, the internal dank gloom of his mind.”

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Plutarch buch Moralia

οὐ γὰρ ὡς ἀγγεῖον ὁ νοῦς ἀποπληρώσεως ἀλλ' ὑπεκκαύματος μόνον ὥσπερ ὕλη δεῖται ὁρμὴν ἐμποιοῦντος εὑρετικὴν καὶ ὄρεξιν ἐπὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν. ὥσπερ οὖν εἴ τις ἐκ γειτόνων πυρὸς δεόμενος, εἶτα πολὺ καὶ λαμπρὸν εὑρὼν αὐτοῦ καταμένοι διὰ τέλους θαλπόμενος, οὕτως εἴ τις ἥκων λόγου μεταλαβεῖν πρὸς ἄλλον οὐχ οἴεται δεῖν φῶς οἰκεῖον ἐξάπτειν καὶ νοῦν ἴδιον, ἀλλὰ χαίρων τῇ ἀκροάσει κάθηται θελγόμενος, οἷον ἔρευθος ἕλκει καὶ γάνωμα τὴν δόξαν ἀπὸ τῶν λόγων, τὸν δ᾽ ἐντὸς: εὐρῶτα τῆς ψυχῆς καὶ ζόφον οὐκ ἐκτεθέρμαγκεν οὐδ᾽ ἐξέωκε διὰ φιλοσοφίας.
On Listening to Lectures, Plutarch, Moralia 48C (variously called De auditione Philosophorum or De Auditu or De Recta Audiendi Ratione)
Moralia, Others

“Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart.”

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Consolation to Apollonius

“One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.”

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Of Bashfulness
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.”

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42 Alexander
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“By these criteria let Alexander also be judged! For from his words, from his deeds, and from the instruction' which he imparted, it will be seen that he was indeed a philosopher.”

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Plutarch buch Moralia

On the Fortune Of Alexander, I, 4, 328B Loeb, F.C. Babbitt
Moralia, Others

“Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.”

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

“It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.”

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Plutarch buch Moralia

Moralia, Of the Training of Children

“Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.”

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Cato the Elder
Roman Apophthegms

“A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."”

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Plutarch buch Parallel Lives

Aemilius Paulus, sec. 29
Parallel Lives

“Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.”

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Plutarch buch Parallel Lives

Parallel Lives, Caesar

“These are the materials for reflection which history affords to those who choose to make use of them.”

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Plutarch buch Parallel Lives

Aemilius, sec. 5
Parallel Lives

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