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• Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Platonic Questions, viii, 4...
• Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Coriolanu...
• 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...
• Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Which are the most crafty, Water or Land Animals? 7...
• He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- On the Tranquillity of the Mind...
• It is a difficult thing for a man to resist the natural necessity of mortal passions.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of those whom God is slow to punish...
• The soul aspiring pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount.
  -- Robert Montgomery (1807-1855) -- The Omnipresence of the Deity, Part i...
• 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...
• Like the man who threw a stone at a bitch, but hit his step-mother, on which he exclaimed, "Not so bad!
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- On the Tranquillity of the Mind...