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let me be far from the battle at Thermodon
Watching if from high in the clouds, like an eagle.
The vanquished weep, and the victor has peri… - Plutarch
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page 212: let me be far from the battle at Thermodon Watching if from high in the clouds, like an eagle. The vanquished weep, and the victor has perished.
So is it with women also; if they subordinate themselves to their husbands, they are commended, but if they want to have control, they cut a sorrier figure than the subjects of their control. And control ought to be exercised by the man over the woman, not as the owner has control over a piece of property, but, as the soul colonists the body, by entering into her feelings and being knit to her through goodwill. As, therefore, it is possible to exercise care over the body without being a slave to its pleasures and desires, so it is possible to govern a wife, and at the same time to delight and gratify her.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.
