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• Marius said, "I see the cure is not worth the pain.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caius Mariu...
• Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caius Mariu...
• As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Lysande...
• Lysander said, "Where the lion's skin will not reach, it must be pieced with the fox's.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Lysande...
• Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, "She can choose best," and so took both away with him.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Lysande...
• When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I 'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Plistarchu...
• Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Cicero...
• Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Demosthene...
• Themistocles said to Antiphales, "Time, young man, has taught us both a lesson.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Themistocle...