Famous quotes containing the words plutarch and/or writes:
“All his works might well enough be embraced under the title of one of them, a good specimen brick, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History.” Of this department he is the Chief Professor in the World’s University, and even leaves Plutarch behind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)