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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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“Leones en casa, zorras en lo razo.”

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

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

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

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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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

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

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

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“Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses."”

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Plutarco: Frases en inglés

“He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.”

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

“He said they that were serious in ridiculous matters would be ridiculous in serious affairs.”

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

“We see that kindness or humanity has a larger field than bare justice to exercise itself in; law and justice we cannot, in the nature of things, employ on others than men; but we may extend our goodness and charity even to irrational creatures; and such acts flow from a gentle nature, as water from an abundant spring. It is doubtless the part of a kind-natured man to keep even worn-out horses and dogs, and not only take care of them when they are foals and whelps, but also when they are grown old.”

Cato the Elder
Roman Apophthegms

“Custom is almost a second nature.”

Plutarch libro Parallel Lives

Marcus Cato (Dryden translation)
Parallel Lives

“Menenius Agrippa concluded at length with the celebrated fable: "It once happened that all the other members of a man mutinied against the stomach, which they accused as the only idle, uncontributing part in the whole body, while the rest were put to hardships and the expense of much labour to supply and minister to its appetites."”

Rules for the Preservation of Health, 18
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.”

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

“Cato instigated the magistrates to punish all offenders, saying that they that did not prevent crimes when they might, encouraged them. Of young men, he liked them that blushed better than those who looked pale.”

Symposiacs, book viii. Question viii
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic."”

Cato the Elder
Roman Apophthegms

“Certainly the people's insistence that their candidates should present themselves ungirt and without a tunic had nothing to do with any suspicion of bribery, for it was not until long afterwards that the abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining the elections. Later on, however, this process of corruption spread to the law courts and to the army, and finally, when even the sword became enslaved by the power of gold, the republic was subjected to the rule of the emperors. For it has rightly been said that the man who first offers banquets and bribes to the people is the first to destroy their liberties.”

Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax
Laconic Apophthegms

“Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set up a democracy in your own house."”

Plutarch libro Parallel Lives

Gaius Marcius (Coriolanus) 14.2, translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert, Makers of Rome: Nine Lives by Plutarch (Harmondsworth : Penguin Books 1965) ISBN 0140441581, p. 27
Parallel Lives

“Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force… but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.”

57 Lycurgus
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders

“Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.”

The Life of Pompey