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• I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world. -- Socrate
• Socrates said, "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- How a Young Man ought to hear Poems, 4...
• As Caesar was at supper the discourse was of death,--which sort was the best.
  That," said he, "which is unexpected." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Caesa...
• Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees.
  They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Phocio...
• These Macedonians," said he, "are a rude and clownish people, that call a spade a spade.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Philip...
• Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Platonic Questions, viii, 4...
• Asked from what country he came, he replied, "I am a citizen of the world.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge
  and one only evil, namely, ignorance. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xiv...
• Xenophanes said, "I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Bashfulne...