Plútarchos nejznámější citáty
Plútarchos: Citáty o přátelství
Plútarchos: Citáty o duši
Plútarchos citáty a výroky
Zdroj: Plútarchos: Myšlenky (výbor z díla). Bratislava: Nestor, 2000, s.182
„Nejstarší a největší je láska k životu.“
Varianta: Nejstarší a největší láska je láska k životu.
Varianta: Oddech je kořením práce.
Zdroj: [Lunární kalendář, Krásná paní, Praha, 2020, 53, 37]
Zdroj: Plútarchos: Myšlenky (výbor z díla). Bratislava: Nestor, 2000, s.272
Plútarchos: Citáty anglicky
“Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.”
Zdroj: The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives
“The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.”
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
Varianta: The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
“It is a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.”
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Moralia, Of the Training of Children
I, 4
Moralia, Of Eating of Flesh
Kontext: For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy. And then we fancy that the voices it utters and screams forth to us are nothing else but certain inarticulate sounds and noises, and not the several deprecations, entreaties, and pleadings of each of them.
Of Hearing, 6
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Zdroj: Parallel Lives
Life of Pompey
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Lycurgus, sec. 8. The bolded phrase is often quoted in a paraphrase by Ugo Foscolo: "Wealth and poverty are the oldest and most deadly ailments of all republics" (Le ricchezze e la povertà sono le più antiche e mortali infermità delle repubbliche), Monitore Italiano, 5 February 1798.
Parallel Lives