Plutarch
saidundated
The great god Pan is dead.
— Why the Oracles cease to give Answers (Tr. Goodwin)
Plutarch
Greek philosopher and historian (c. AD 46 – after AD 119)
- Fame78.9
- Momentum0.0
- Writers rank#111
Source-basedFalling
- Fame78.9
- Momentum0.0
- Writers rank#111
- Wikipedia58.2K
Lived 40–120, aged 80
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Updated 2026-06-08
He mapped greatness by pairing it: Greek statesmen against Roman generals, philosophers against warriors, virtue against vice. His *Parallel Lives* became the template for understanding character through comparison, and for two thousand years anyone writing biography has walked in the corridor he built.
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Born before AD 50 in Greece, Plutarch lived through the height of Roman imperial power and eventually took Roman citizenship, likely becoming Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus. He served as a priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi and worked as a Middle Platonist philosopher, but his lasting mark came through two vast projects. *Parallel Lives* assembled biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, setting them side by side to reveal what made them rise or fall. *Moralia* gathered his essays and speeches on ethics, education, and daily life. He died sometime after AD 120, leaving behind a body of…
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Plutarch
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He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
— Of Garrulity (Tr. Goodwin)
Plutarch
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The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
— On Listening to Lectures (Tr. Waterfield)
Plutarch
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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.
— 31 Scilurus
Plutarch
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Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!
— 32 Dionysius
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Source confidence60.0
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