Barry Moe

“And yet,” said he, “how can a man take care of his own horse or furbish up his spear and helmet, if he is unaccustomed to using his hands on his own dear person? Know ye not,” said he, “that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?”
― Plutarch, The Complete Works of Plutarch. Illustrated: Parallel Lives. Moralia

“For if they do not receive the seed of good doctrines and share with their husbands in intellectual advancement, they, left to themselves, conceive many untoward ideas and low designs and emotions.”
― Plutarch, The Complete Works of Plutarch. Illustrated: Parallel Lives. Moralia

“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.”
― Plutarch, The Complete Works of Plutarch. Illustrated: Parallel Lives. Moralia

“And he used to say that sleep and sexual intercourse, more than any thing else, made him conscious that he was mortal, implying that both weariness and pleasure arise from one and the same natural weakness.”
― Plutarch, The Complete Works of Plutarch. Illustrated: Parallel Lives. Moralia