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
army law play
The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors
friendship change philosophy
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
inspirational leadership education
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
freedom tyrants economic-inequality
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
beautiful giving wish
As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.
men mirrors infallible
Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.
Either is both, and Both is neither.