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• Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Grea...
• Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Coriolanu...
• Themistocles said that he certainly could not make use of any stringed instrume
  could only, were a small and obscure city put into his hands, make it great and glorious....
• Themistocles said to Antiphales, "Time, young man, has taught us both a lesson.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Themistocle...
• Alexander said, "I assure you I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Alexande...
• When Alexander asked Diogenes whether he wanted anything, "Yes," said he, "I would have you stand from between me and the sun.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Alexande...
• For ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle...
• The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• The most perfect soul, says Heraclitus, is a dry light, which flies out of the body as lightning breaks from a cloud.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Romulu...