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• Like the man who threw a stone at a bitch, but hit his step-mother, on which he exclaimed, "Not so bad!
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- On the Tranquillity of the Mind...
• He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- On the Tranquillity of the Mind...
• 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...
• Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of world
  and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answe...
• Leo Byzantius said, "What would you do, if you saw my wife, who scarce reaches up to my knees?
  ... Yet," went he on, "as little as we are, when we fall out with each other, the city of Byzantium is not big enough to hold us....
• A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much.
  True," said he, "but every goose can." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Remarkable Speeche...
• He that hath love in his breast hath spurs in his sides. -- Herbe
• To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Iphicrate...
• Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance
  but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath....