Beautiful Quote by Plutarch

“Lycurgus was of opinion that ornaments were so far from advantaging them in their counsels, that they were rather an hindrance, by diverting their…

— Plutarch

Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, "She can choose best," and…

— Plutarch

“the Britons that Julius Caesar saw were to him primitive exotics with long hair, dyed bodies, and living in a society of shared wives.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Some thirty-six years after the death of Leonidas, King Agesilaus of Sparta, as Plutarch recounts, showed that the essential Spartan spirit, which distinguished her…

— Ernle Bradford

“But, to return to my design, what power was it that drew those stony, oaken, and wild people into cities but flattery? For nothing…

— Erasmus

“Menestheus, the son of Peteus, grandson of Orneus, and the great-grandson to Erechtheus, the first man that is recorded to have affected popularity and…

— Plutarch

Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the…

— Janet Morris

“Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself. —PUBLIUS SYRUS”

— Ryan Holiday

“little mother of ancient days: Thou hast cunningly dyed thy hair but consider That thy bent back will never be straight!”

— Khushwant Singh

A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said…

— Plutarch

“We received our coloring from Norsemen. Hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees. We are the ones…

— Janet Fitch

“suggested elegance, as if the Romans didn’t have enough on their own. Yet”

— Noel Hynd