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• 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...
• Anacharsis said a man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible favours and blessings of Fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, 11...
• Have in readiness this saying of Solon, "But we will not give up our virtue in exchange for their wealth.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- How to profit by our Enemie...
• Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristippus, iv...
• Let not another's disobedience to Nature become an ill to you
  for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them....
• 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...
• Young men," said Caesar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Caesar Augustu...
• I love this planet. I've got wealth, fame, and access to the depths of sleaze that those things bring.
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• Two of the worst things we teach our children are that a knowledge of science is nice but not necessary, and a knowledge of sex is necessary but not nice.