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• When one asked him what boys should learn, "That," said he, "which they shall use when men.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Laconic Apophthegms, Of Agesilaus the Grea...
• To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said, "I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Laconic Apophthegms, Of Agesilaus the Grea...
• Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room
  and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own....
• The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Agesilaus II...
• Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Agesilaus II...
• And the men who hold high places...
• Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Roman Apophthegms, Cato the Elde...
• Cato said, "I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Political Precep...
• Young men," said Caesar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Caesar Augustu...