Plutarch
Plutarch
Plutarch; c. AD 46 – AD 120) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He is classified as a Middle Platonist. Plutarch's surviving works were written in Greek, but intended for both Greek and Roman readers...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
education practice blind
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.
shadow action said
Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
inspiration egypt other-worlds
To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.
music medicine disease
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
art painting silent
Painting is silent poetry.
technology thinking mind
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.
anger men savages
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
art poetry greek
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
inspirational empathy advice
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
work men criticism
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.
time counselor wisest
Time is the wisest of all counselors.
kindness philosophical men
The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.
perseverance taken persistence
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
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Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.