Plutarch

Plutarch (c. 46 - 120) was celebrated Greek biographer, more properly the writer of lives, and moralist, born at Chæronea, in Boeotia. He studied at Athens, paid frequent visits to Rome, and formed friendships with some of its distinguished citizens. He spent his later years at his native place, and held a priesthood. His fame rests on his "Parallel Lives" of 46 distinguished Greeks and Romans, a series of portraitures true to the life, and a work one of the most valuable we possess on the illustrious men of antiquity, and an enduring memorial of them.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are taken together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

-Life of Sertorius, in Parallel Lives

• A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech.

- The Education of Children

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