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• According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• Live with wolves, and you learn to howl. Spanish Proverb
• An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...