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• Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affai...
• The general himself ought to be such a one as can at the same time see both forward and backward.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affai...
• A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed.
  He answered, "In silence." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Archelau...
• When asked why he parted with his wife, Caesar replied, "I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caesa...
• Diogenes the Cynic, when a little before his death he fell into a slumber, and his physician rousing him out of it asked him whether anything ailed him, wisely answered, "Nothing, si
  only one brother anticipates another,--Sleep before Death....
• Asked what he gained from philosophy, he answered, "To do without being commanded what others do from fear of the laws.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xi...
• Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Dionysiu...
• Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Platonic Questions, viii, 4...
• When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Demaratu...