Plutarch's Morals

Plutarch's wide-ranging essays and dialogues on how to live, think, and govern oneself.

At a glance Practical ancient wisdom on friendship, anger, contentment, and virtue, from one of… Beyond the famous parallel biographies of Greeks and Romans, Plutarch left behind a… Genial, digressive, and crammed with anecdote and quotation, they read far less like… What it's about The pieces range across an enormous field of human concern: how to…

The pieces range across an enormous field of human concern: how to govern one's temper, how to draw profit even from one's enemies, how to distinguish a true friend from a flatterer, how to bear misfortune with…