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• 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...
• Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affai...
• Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time
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• Themistocles said to Antiphales, "Time, young man, has taught us both a lesson.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Themistocle...
• 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...
• Sweer's Impossibility Theorem: Nothing can be both completely general and internally consistent at the same time.
• Nothing can be both completely general and internally consistent at the same time.
  -- Sweer`s Impossibility Theorem...
• A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. -- Montaigne
• No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one -- Nathaniel Hawthorne