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• 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....
• Cato said, "I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Political Precep...
• It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome.
  -- Plutarch...
• There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life
  Know thyself", and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend....
• They say that marriages are made in heaven - but so are thunder and lightning.
• Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine
  and he is very happy who hath this only....
• When the candles are out all women are fair. -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Conjugal Precep
• 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...
• When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of oratory, he answered, "Actio
  and which was the second, he replied, "Action;" and which was the third, he still answered, "Action....