Plutarch Quotes About Son

Quotes about: Son

• Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.

  Plutarch

  Strong, Teaching, Son

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1874). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.190

• To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.

  Plutarch

  Mean, Son, Birth

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2166, Delphi Classics

• Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron.

  Plutarch

  Son, Smell, Aprons

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.203

• When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.

  Plutarch

  Son, Men, Riches

• A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

  Plutarch

  Warrior, Son, Sparta

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