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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...
• 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...
• Students today depend upon paper too much. They don't know how to write on a slate without getting chalk dust all over themselves.
  They can't clean a slate properly. What will they do when they run out of paper?...
• When the candles are out all women are fair. -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Conjugal Precep
• 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....
• Using the proverb frequently in their mouths who enter upon dangerous and bold attempts, "The die is cast," he took the river.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caesa...
• Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
  Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1777]...