Plutarch Quotes About Greek

Quotes about: Greek

• Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

  Plutarch

  Art, Poetry, Greek

• While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.

  Plutarch

  Kings, Army, Greek

• To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.

  Plutarch

  Inspiration, Other Worlds, Egypt

• Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

  Plutarch

  Patriotic, Greek, Patriotism

  Plutarch (1888). “Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto”

• Come back with your shield - or on it

  Plutarch

  Greek, Sparta, Shields

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