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• Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all. -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle
• For ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle...
• So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle...
• The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Agesilaus II...
• Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pompey...
• Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise me
  for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men....
• And this," said Caesar, "you know, young man, is more disagreeable for me to say than to do.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caesa...
• Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Phocio...
• For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caesa...