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• Abstain from beans; that is, keep out of public offices, for anciently the choice of the officers of state was made by beans.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• It is a point of wisdom to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man you will learn to halt.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...