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• Said Periander, "Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, 14...
• Said Scopas of Thessaly, "We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Love of Wealth...
• An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
  -- Book of Common Prayer -- Catechism...
• Young men," said Caesar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Caesar Augustu...
• No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Fortune...
• When Eudaemonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he
  but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets....
• For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Against Colote...
• Socrates said, "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- How a Young Man ought to hear Poems, 4...
• I will show," said Agesilaus, "that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Laconic Apophthegms, Of Agesilaus the Grea...