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• The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Consolation to Apolloniu...
• The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Agesilaus II...
• 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....
• Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Consolation to Apolloniu...
• Diogenes the Cynic, when a little before his death he fell into a slumber, and his physician rousing him out of it asked him whether anything ailed him, wisely answered, "Nothing, si
  only one brother anticipates another,--Sleep before Death....
• When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!
  aid he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief....
• Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle.
  Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center....
• Being about to pitch his camp in a likely place, and hearing there was no hay to be had for the cattle, "What a life," said he, "is ours, since we must live according to the convenience of asses!
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Philip...
• Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage.
  And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses....