Author: Plutarch

Cited by

• NULL (1)
  • IN: NULL (None) NULL, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
    FROM: Parallel Lives, (100), Book, Greece
• Peter Cocks (1)
  • IN: Shadow Box (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ancient Greece
• Ross Thomas (1)
  • IN: Ah, Treachery! (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He loved treachery but hated a traitor.
    FROM: Plutarch, on Romulus, (125), Book, Greece/Italy
• Louis Maistros (1)
  • IN: The Sound of Building Coffins (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Medicine, to produce health, must examine disease, and music, to create harmony, must examine discord.
    FROM: Parallel Lives, (150), Book, Greece/Italy
• Annabel Lyon (1)
  • IN: The Golden Mean (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It must be borne in mind that my design is not to write histories but lives. And the most glorious ecploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men: sometimes a matter of less moment, an expression or a jest, informs us better of their characters and inclinations, than the most famous sieges, the greatest armaments, or the bloodiest battles whatsoever.
    FROM: The Life of Alexander the Great, (2004), Book, Greece
• Reneé Boylesve (1)
  • IN: La Becquée (1901) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Ressemblans aux petits oysellets qui ne peuvent encore voler, et qui baillent tousjours attendans la becquée d'autruy.
    FROM: Oeuvres Morales, (2015), NULL, France
• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And what thing soever besides cometh within the chaos of this monster's mouth, be it beast, boat, or stone, down it goes all incontinently that foul great swallow of his, and perisheth in the bottomless gulf of his paunch.
    FROM: Holland's Plutarch's Morals, (100), Essay, Italy
• M. K. Hume (1)
  • IN: The Ice King (2015) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation, shows a man unfit to hold an office.
    FROM: Parallel Lives, Quintus Fabius Maximus, (125), Book, Italy