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Plutarchs Lives are written in a highly moralistic fashion and since in general he tends to choose his subjects in order to extoll virtue, by displaying how others have lead virtous lives he has a tendancy to focus more closely on good personality traits than negative ones. The only really negative lives that he writes is the pair of Marius and Pyrus, in both of these lives he points to a lack of satisfaction with what one has attained as a negative quality. this discontentment leads both Marius and Pyrus to greed and ambiton and compromise of their morals in order to attain more for themselves. Good personality traits he sees as Skill in warfare and Politics, Love of ones country (as exemplified in Ageisilaus) an indefferance to money and lack of greed there of. He sees this in his subjects who lend money to their friends without intrest and those who refuse bribes on moral grounds. He sees chastity as another important virtue as well as skill in orataory.
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