Plutarch Berühmte Zitate
Moralia I, Vorschriften zur Gesundheit, 19
Zitate über Leben von Plutarch
„Der Anfang des rechten Lebens ist, wie wir glauben, das rechte Hören.“
Moralia I, Über das Zuhören, Kapitel 18 (Schlußsatz)
„Der Tod ist das Ende aller Dinge des menschlichen Lebens, nur des Aberglaubens nicht.“
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.“
Moralia VI, Von der Bezähmung des Zornes, 13 (461c)
Vergleichung Aristides und Cato d. Ä., Kapitel 4; sprichwörtlich als Armut ist keine Schande
Moralia I, Über das Zuhören, Kapitel 18
„Der Menge gefallen heißt den Weisen missfallen.“
Moralia I, Über die Erziehung der Kinder, Kapitel 9
„Die Kunst besteht darin, in allem den Mittelweg einzuhalten.“
Moralia I, Über die Erziehung der Kinder, Kapitel 9
„Dumm und feige ist, wer aus Furcht vor Verlust den Besitz des Nötigen ablehnt.“
Leben des Solon, Kapitel 7
„Ein lästiger und ungezogener Tischgenosse zerstört alle Lust.“
Gastmahl der Sieben Weisen, Kapitel 2, 147f
„Einsicht verschafft das Gute, erhält es, mehrt es und macht rechten Gebrauch davon.“
Trostschrift an Apollonius
Moralia I, p. 65D, Über den Schmeichler und den Freund, Kapitel 24 / über Medios
„Man soll ebensowenig nach den Augen heiraten wie nach den Fingern.“
Moralia I, Ehevorschriften, 24
Königs- und Feldherrnsprüche / ein Spartaner zu einem Bettler
Plutarch: Zitate auf Englisch
“That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far."”
Of Inquisitiveness
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The general himself ought to be such a one as can at the same time see both forward and backward.”
Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax
Laconic Apophthegms
Life of Alexander
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."”
Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Great
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Consolation to Apollonius
“It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn a limp.”
Plutarch buch Moralia
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
Plutarch buch Moralia
Of Man's Progress in Virtue
Moralia, Others
62 Eudæmonidas
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
Plutarch buch Parallel Lives
Parallel Lives, Caesar
Life of Demosthenes
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Simonides calls painting silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting.”
Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or Learned, 3
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Rules for the Preservation of Health, 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Plutarch buch Moralia
Of Bashfulness; on Zeno
Moralia, Others
Plutarch buch Parallel Lives
Parallel Lives, Caesar
“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.”
Plutarch buch Moralia
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
Plutarch buch Moralia
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)
Plutarch buch Moralia
Of Superstition.
Attributed to Heraclitus, Frag. 89
Moralia, Others
“He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.”
Plutarch buch Moralia
Of Garrulity.
Attributed to Hesiod, Frag. 219
Moralia, Others
