Please Verify Quote Attributed to Plutarch

[Sean]

On the page
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1774...

you have assigned a quote to Plutarch, yet there is no citation regarding the source of this alleged quote.

There is evidence that it is a misquote and/or perhaps a very loose paraphrase. In an editorial by Ugo Foscolo in the Monitore Italiano (Milan, 5 Feb. 1798), Foscolo refers to Plutarch's work "Life of Lycurgus" as the source of this quotation, yet I don't see where it exists in that work.

See reference below, at the end of No. 9:
https://books.google.com/books?id=2Xn...

[Banjomike]

Plutarch never said it. There is a nifty analysis here:
https://codeandculture.wordpress.com/...

[Sean]

I appreciate the contribution. I personally was aware of the analysis you referred to (among others), I'm just trying to get goodreads to remove this quote, and was told to start this topic to get that process started.

Thanks again for your info.