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• Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Rules for the Preservation of Health, 25...
• It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,--nay, it is a very easy matte
  but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome....
• Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this that he knew nothing yet.
  -- MRS. APHRA BEHN...
• As those persons who despair of ever being rich make little account of small expenses, thinking that little added to a little will never make any great sum.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Man's Progress in Virtue...
• Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affai...
• 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....
• 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...
• 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...
• As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Platonic Questions, i...