Plutarch Quotes
Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated by William W. Goodwin, vol. 5, Little, Brown, and Company, 1878, p. 77.
Likely misattributed. The phrase was popularized by the writer Orville Schell in "To Get Rich Is Glorious: China in the '80s" (1984) but Schell never actually attributed the words to Deng, telling the L.A. Times's Evelyn Iritani in 2004 that it merely "grew out of the zeitgeist" of China's economic reforms.
Eaton, who was the American consul to Tunis during the years leading up to the Barbary War, decided along with his fellow consul, James Cathcart, to use their diplomatic leverage to their benefit by getting involved in Tunisian trade.
Plutarch (/ˈpluːtɑːrk/; Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos; Koine Greek: [ˈplutarkʰos]; AD 46–after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches. Upon becoming a Roman citizen, he was named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Λούκιος Μέστριος Πλούταρχος).
