Frases de Plutarco página 2

“El verdadero sabio sólo es riguroso consigo mismo; con los demás es amable.”

Sin fuentes

“La maldad aún con nobleza es digna de desprecio.”

Sin fuentes

“Los más sufrimos peor las malas palabras que las malas obras, porque es más difícil llevar el desprecio que la pérdida.”

Sin fuentes

“No puede ejecutar cosas grandes el que tiene su atención en las pequeñas.”

Sin fuentes

“Así hasta esto tuvo en su favor Argesilao: entrar a mandar sabiendo obedecer.”

Sin fuentes

“¡Cuán cierto es que la fortuna está muy fuera del alcance del juicio humano, y que respecto a ella nada sirven nuestros raciocinios!”

Sin fuentes

“El amor a la paz es verdaderamente divino.”

Sin fuentes

“Es cosa deseable tener una buena ascendencia, pero la gloria pertenece a nuestros antepasados.”

Sin fuentes

“Esclavos de los más ruines, a trueque de mandar a los mejores.”

Sin fuentes

“La maldad contiene los motivos de su propio tormento. Es un maravilloso artesano de una vida miserable.”

Sin fuentes

“Leones en casa, zorras en lo razo.”

Sin fuentes

“Lo entregó todo al fuego, que no hace distinción entre los culpados y los que no lo son.”

Sin fuentes

“Lo justo debe ser la medida real con que se regule la mayoría y excelencia del poder.”

Sin fuentes

“Lo que hagas sin esfuerzo y con presteza, durar no puede ni tener belleza.”

Sin fuentes

“Los caracteres ambiciosos, que no saben en la república guardar un justo medio, hacen más daño que provecho.”

Sin fuentes

“Los dichos injuriosos parece que nacen de sobrado rencor y sobrada malicia.”

Sin fuentes

“Para la plebe, el mayor honor de parte de los más poderosos es el que no la desprecien.”

Sin fuentes

“Por un pequeño bocado de carne privamos a un alma del Sol y de la luz y del gozo de la porción de vida y tiempo por la que había nacido al mundo.”

Sin fuentes

“Sería lo mismo motejar a Heracles de tímido, que acusar a Catón de avaro.”

Sin fuentes

“Un ejército de ciervos dirigido por un león es mucho más temible que un ejército de leones mandado por un ciervo.”

Sin fuentes

“Disfrutar de todos los placeres es insensato; evitarlos, insensible.”

Sin fuentes

“Lysander said, "Where the lion's skin will not reach, it must be pieced with the fox's."”

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Plutarco: Frases en inglés

“After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws."”

60 Lysander
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life: "Know thyself," and "Nothing too much;" and upon these all other precepts depend.”

Cicero
Roman Apophthegms

“From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules."”

Consolation to Apollonius

“Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.”

Life of Theseus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.”

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

“Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.”

Life of Theseus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“When Hermodotus in his poems described Antigonus as the son of Helios, "My valet-de-chambre," said he, "is not aware of this."”

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

“To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you."”

Of Isis and Osiris
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.”

54 Iphicrates
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.”

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

“Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece."”

Plutarch libro Parallel Lives

Parallel Lives, Pericles

“As Cæsar was at supper the discourse was of death,—which sort was the best. "That," said he, "which is unexpected."”

Plutarch libro Parallel Lives

Aemilius, sec. 12
Parallel Lives

“Have in readiness this saying of Solon, "But we will not give up our virtue in exchange for their wealth."”

Cæsar
Roman Apophthegms

“The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse."”

How to profit by our Enemies
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Said Scopas of Thessaly, "We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things."”

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

“Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.”

Of the Love of Wealth
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour."”

Of Hearing, 6
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Xenophanes said, "I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing."”

Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“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.”

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

“Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?"”

Plutarch libro Parallel Lives

Sertorius, sec. 16
Parallel Lives

“I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.”

Rules for the Preservation of Health, 25
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Philip being arbitrator betwixt two wicked persons, he commanded one to fly out of Macedonia and the other to pursue him.”

Of Isis and Osiris
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practise.”

36 Philip
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.”

Plutarch libro Parallel Lives

Parallel Lives, Pericles

“Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.”

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

“Thus our judgments, if they do not borrow from reason and philosophy a fixity and steadiness of purpose in their acts, are easily swayed and influenced by the praise or blame of others, which make us distrust our own opinions.”

Plutarch libro Moralia

Moralia, Of the Training of Children

“By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?"”

Plutarch libro Parallel Lives

Timoleon, sec. 6
Parallel Lives

“Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, "She can choose best," and so took both away with him.”

Plutarch libro Parallel Lives

What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?
Timoleon
Parallel Lives

“Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.”

Of Lysander
Laconic Apophthegms