Plutarch
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 87 instances of Plutarch in 36 chapters.
Normalized frequency of Plutarch in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 4 · ¶ 3.
How the Soul Releases Its Emotions on False Objects When Real Ones Are Missing always be given some object to butt up against and act on. Plutarch says about those who develop a passion for pet monkeys and little …
- Book 1 · Chapter 4 · ¶ 8.
How the Soul Releases Its Emotions on False Objects When Real Ones Are Missing pacify God with their infernal retaliation. As this ancient poet says in Plutarch,∗ however, …
- Book 1 · Chapter 20 · ¶ 45.
On the Power of Imagination Plutarch would readily admit about what he was able to do that it …
- Book 1 · Chapter 22 · ¶ 44.
On Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law he advised him to turn it only, that being not forbidden; and Plutarch commends Philopoemen, that being born to command, he knew how to do …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 3.
On Pedantry And ’twas so in former times; for Plutarch says that Greek and Scholar were terms of reproach and contempt among …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 3.
On the Education of Children seriously settled myself to the reading any book of solid learning but Plutarch and Seneca; and there, like the Danaides, I eternally fill, and it …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 4.
On the Education of Children I have attempted to write (as I did but just now in Plutarch’s Discourse of the Force of Imagination), to see myself so weak and …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 45.
On the Education of Children reap as to the business of men, by reading the Lives of Plutarch? But, withal, let my governor remember to what end his instructions are …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 45.
On the Education of Children that another has not, or not taken notice of at least; and Plutarch has read a hundred more there than ever I could find, or …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 45.
On the Education of Children the most abstruse parts of our human nature penetrate. There are in Plutarch many long discourses very worthy to be carefully read and observed, for …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 45.
On the Education of Children the better by it, but in the meantime we are the worse. Plutarch had rather we should applaud his judgment than commend his knowledge, and …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 70.
On the Education of Children I am of Plutarch’s mind, that Aristotle did not so much trouble his great disciple with …
- Book 1 · Chapter 26 · ¶ 13.
It Is Folly to Measure the True and the False by Our Own Capacity not being, perhaps, of authority enough to restrain us. But what if Plutarch, besides several examples that he produces out of antiquity, tells us, he …
- Book 1 · Chapter 27 · ¶ 5.
On Friendship and that we also breed worms and lice; and that other, that Plutarch endeavored to reconcile to his brother: “I make never the more account …
- Book 1 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 10.
On Cato the Younger enough to conceive the splendor of virtue in her native purity: as Plutarch complains, that in his time some attributed the cause of the younger …
- Book 1 · Chapter 39 · ¶ 7.
A Consideration on Cicero Plutarch says, moreover, that to appear so excellent in these less necessary qualities …
- Book 1 · Chapter 42 · ¶ 1.
On the Inequality among Us Plutarch says somewhere that he does not find so great a difference betwixt …
- Book 1 · Chapter 42 · ¶ 1.
On the Inequality among Us are yet men of good sense, that I could willingly enhance upon Plutarch, and say that there is more difference betwixt such and such a …
- Book 1 · Chapter 46 · ¶ 11.
On Names and rough at first; but already custom, by the authority of his Plutarch, has overcome that novelty. I have often wished that such as write …
- Book 1 · Chapter 47 · ¶ 14.
On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment to receive the enemy’s charge; by “reason that” (I shall here steal Plutarch’s own words, which are better than mine) “he by so doing deprived …
- Book 1 · Chapter 54 · ¶ 1.
On Vain Subtleties alphabet might be transposed, and found out that incredible number mentioned in Plutarch. I am mightily pleased with the humor of him, who having a …
- Book 1 · Chapter 55 · ¶ 1.
On Smells an odoriferous smell, occasioned by some rare and extraordinary constitution, of which Plutarch and others have been inquisitive into the cause. But the ordinary constitution …
- Book 2 · Chapter 2 · ¶ 40.
On Drunkenness to suppress them is not in him to do. Even our great Plutarch, that excellent and perfect judge of human actions, when he sees Brutus …
- Book 2 · Chapter 4 · ¶ 1.
Business Can Wait conversant with him, imprinted a vivid and general idea of that of Plutarch in his soul, he has delivered us nothing that either derogates from …
- Book 2 · Chapter 7 · ¶ 7.
On Honorary Awards consideration of valor, and the difference of this virtue from others; but, Plutarch having so often handled this subject, I should give myself an unnecessary …
- Book 2 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 17.
On the Armor of the Parthians Plutarch says, that Demetrius caused two complete suits of armor to be made …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 4.
On Books the conception and design as vulgar also. I will have them give Plutarch a fillip on my nose, and rail against Seneca when they think …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 22.
On Books opinions and conditions, the books that serve me to this purpose are Plutarch, since he has been translated into French, and Seneca. Both of these …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 22.
On Books the cream of philosophy, and delivered after a plain and pertinent manner. Plutarch is more uniform and constant; Seneca more various and waving: the last …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 22.
On Books to disdain to alter his pace and to stand upon his guard. Plutarch’s opinions are Platonic, gentle, and accommodated to civil society; those of the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 22.
On Books judgment when he condemns the action of the generous murderers of Caesar. Plutarch is frank throughout: Seneca abounds with brisk touches and sallies; Plutarch with …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 22.
On Books Caesar. Plutarch is frank throughout: Seneca abounds with brisk touches and sallies; Plutarch with things that warm and move you more; this contents and pays …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 27.
On Books the preacher are different things, I would as willingly see Brutus in Plutarch, as in a book of his own. I would rather choose to …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 29.
On Books are the most proper for my reading; and, therefore, above all others, Plutarch is the man for me. I am very sorry we have not …
- Book 2 · Chapter 11 · ¶ 58.
On Cruelty And the very interpretation that Plutarch, gives to this error, which is very well conceived, is advantageous to …
- Book 2 · Chapter 11 · ¶ 62.
On Cruelty eminence near the sea, which has ever since retained the name, and Plutarch says, that he had a scruple about selling for a small profit …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 61.
Apology for Raymond Sebond and human abodes, and plant colonies for our convenience, as Plato and Plutarch have done? And of our earth to make a luminous and resplendent …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 113.
Apology for Raymond Sebond I must not omit what Plutarch says he saw of a dog at Rome with the Emperor Vespasian, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 116.
Apology for Raymond Sebond But this other story of the pie, of which we have Plutarch himself for a warrant, is very strange. She lived in a barber’s …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 117.
Apology for Raymond Sebond not omit this other example of a dog, also, which the same Plutarch (I am sadly confounding all order, but I do not propose arrangement …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 117.
Apology for Raymond Sebond not propose arrangement here any more than elsewhere throughout my book) which Plutarch says he saw on board a ship. This dog being puzzled how …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 129.
Apology for Raymond Sebond of the beasts’manners and way of living; for this saying (out of Plutarch) has in all times been in the mouth of these people: …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 160.
Apology for Raymond Sebond at the public charge, and the priests to take care of it. Plutarch delivers this story for a certain truth, and that it happened in …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 168.
Apology for Raymond Sebond against the rocks like a ship that has lost her helm; which Plutarch affirms to have seen in the island of Anticyra. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 174.
Apology for Raymond Sebond builds her nest for her little ones, nor guess at the materials. Plutarch, who has seen and handled many of them, thinks it is the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 258.
Apology for Raymond Sebond That Sextius, of whom both Seneca and Plutarch speak with so high an encomium, having applied himself, all other things …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 302.
Apology for Raymond Sebond not believe that they spoke in earnest of so vain a thing. Plutarch says the same of metaphysics. And Epicurus would have said as much …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 306.
Apology for Raymond Sebond some dogmatical periods. Is not the same thing seen in Seneca and Plutarch? How many contradictions are there to be found if a man pry …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 313.
Apology for Raymond Sebond upon the pursuit of things, of the acquisition of which we despair. Plutarch gives a like example of some one who would not be satisfied …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 355.
Apology for Raymond Sebond imagine beyond the reach of his capacity. “Tis a greater presumption,” says Plutarch, “in them who are but men to attempt to speak and discourse …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 383.
Apology for Raymond Sebond colts, and then into men again? And if it be true, as Plutarch says, that in some place of the Indies there are men without …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 473.
Apology for Raymond Sebond extremities of our perquisition do all fall into astonishment and blindness; as Plutarch says of the testimony of histories, that, according to charts and maps, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 534.
Apology for Raymond Sebond believed that devils were made of the souls of the damned; as Plutarch thinks that gods were made of those that were saved; for there …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 19.
On Presumption aspire. Whatever I undertake, I owe a sacrifice to the Graces, as Plutarch says of some one, to conciliate their favor: …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 26.
On Presumption Seneca’s way of writing, yet I do nevertheless more esteem that of Plutarch. Both in doing and speaking I simply follow my own natural way; …
- Book 2 · Chapter 31 · ¶ 1.
On Anger Plutarch is admirable throughout, but especially where he judges of human actions. What …
- Book 2 · Chapter 31 · ¶ 14.
On Anger Plutarch’s writings, if well understood, sufficiently bespeak their author, and so that I …
- Book 2 · Chapter 31 · ¶ 14.
On Anger in his ears, having for some offense of his been stripped by Plutarch’s command, whilst he was being whipped, muttered at first, that it was …
- Book 2 · Chapter 31 · ¶ 14.
On Anger his rage, totally gave the lie to all his writings; to which Plutarch calmly and coldly answered, “How, ruffian,” said he, “by what dost thou …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 4.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch Let us now come to Plutarch. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 5.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch bold in this passage of his Method of history, where he accuses Plutarch not only of ignorance (wherein I would have let him alone: for …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 6.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch great miracle, nor do I admit the excuse with which he defends Plutarch, in having added these words, as ’tis said, to suspend our belief; …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 6.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch and some till they there voluntarily lost their lives: and that which Plutarch also, among a hundred other witnesses, relates, that at a sacrifice, a …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 14.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch other example he introduces of “things incredible and wholly fabulous,” delivered by Plutarch, is, that “Agesilaus was fined by the Ephori for having wholly engrossed …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 14.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch do not see what sign of falsity is to be found: clearly Plutarch speaks of things that must needs be better known to him than …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 15.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch There is yet in this place another accusation laid against Plutarch which I cannot well digest, where Bodin says that he has sincerely …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 15.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch giving them so unequal companions. This is really to attack what in Plutarch is most excellent and most to be commended; for in his parallels …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 16.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch the truth of the thing, and the men in themselves, which is Plutarch’s chiefest aim, and will rather balance their manners, their natures, and parts, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 16.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch more full of pomp and glory than those of the Greeks, whom Plutarch compares with them; but the bravest and most virtuous actions any more …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 17.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch When Plutarch compares them, he does not, for all that, make them equal; who …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 18.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch them no injury, what disparity soever there may be betwixt them and Plutarch does not entirely oppose them to one another; there is no preference …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 4.
The Story of Spurina the Roman historians say, that she was repudiated by her husband, which Plutarch confesses to be more than he knew; and the Curios, both father …
- Book 2 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 13.
On the Most Excellent Men and particular commendation is also left of him in the judgment of Plutarch, that he is the only author in the world that never glutted …
- Book 2 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 28.
On the Most Excellent Men of the Greeks, and the other of the Romans, were in all Plutarch. What a matter! what a workman! For a man that was no …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 31.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers life may be called physic. He kept his family in health, as Plutarch says if I mistake not, with hare’s milk; as Pliny reports, that …
- Book 3 · Chapter 4 · ¶ 31.
On Diversion Even Plutarch himself laments his daughter for the little apish tricks of her infancy. …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 136.
On Some Verses of Virgil in other bashfulness whereof altogether in things some air of the foolish Plutarch makes mention; and the course of my life has been divers ways …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 175.
On Some Verses of Virgil he must have them more than ordinary, because his conception is so. Plutarch says that he sees the Latin tongue by the things: ’tis here …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 180.
On Some Verses of Virgil But I can hardly be without Plutarch; he is so universal and so full, that upon all occasions, and …
- Book 3 · Chapter 6 · ¶ 4.
On Coaches I think I have seen in Plutarch (who of all the authors I know, is he who has best …
- Book 3 · Chapter 7 · ¶ 11.
On the Inconvenience of High Status I have seen deafness affected; and because the master hated his wife, Plutarch has seen his courtiers repudiate theirs, whom they loved; and, which is …
- Book 3 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 72.
On the Art of Discussion we to set suspicion against evidence; and therefore I do not believe Plutarch in this matter. That his narrations were genuine and straightforward may, perhaps, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 211.
On Vanity an art, as Plato says, light, nimble, demoniac. There are pieces in Plutarch where he forgets his theme; where the proposition of his argument is …
- Book 3 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 52.
On Conserving One’s Will and furiously rush into the lists and cool in the course. As Plutarch says, that those who, through false shame, are soft and facile to …
- Book 3 · Chapter 11 · ¶ 1.
On the Lame us into an uncertainty even of hours and days? and that which Plutarch says of the months, that astrology had not in his time determined …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 9.
On Physiognomy in some sort discovers that he was hard pressed by his enemy. Plutarch’s way, by how much it is more disdainful and farther stretched, is, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 86.
On Physiognomy he is not evil even to the wicked.” Or thus — for Plutarch delivers it both these ways, as he does a thousand other things, …