Plutarch Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• The wildest colts make the best horses.

  Plutarch

  Horse, Children, Teaching

  Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne (1801). “Plutarch's Lives,: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch”, p.283

• Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

  Plutarch

  Mother, Children, Heart

• Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.

  Plutarch

  Horse, Children, Rooms

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.395

• Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

  Plutarch

  Encouragement, Children, Mean

• As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

  Plutarch

  Children, Mind, Instruction

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.8

• Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

  Plutarch

  Children, Study, Whipping

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.20

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