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• 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....
• About Pontus there are some creatures of such an extempore being that the whole term of their life is confined within the space of a day
  for they are brought forth in the morning, are in the prime of their existence at noon, grow old at night, and then die....
• 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....
• 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...
• The true measure of life is not length, but honesty. LYLY
• Menenius Agrippa concluded at length with the celebrated fable
  It once happened that all the other members of a man mutinied against the stomach, which they accused as the only idle, uncontributing part in the whole body, while the rest were put to hardships and the expense of much labour to supply and minister to its appetites....
• Themistocles said to Antiphales, "Time, young man, has taught us both a lesson.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Themistocle...
• 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...
• For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caesa...