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• To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said, "I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Laconic Apophthegms, Of Agesilaus the Grea...
• Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caius Mariu...
• Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Phocio...
• Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved
  and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this....
• You speak truth," said Themistocles; "I should never have been famous if I had been of Seriphu
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Themistocle...
• As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Lysande...
• Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all. -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle
• 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....
• As those persons who despair of ever being rich make little account of small expenses, thinking that little added to a little will never make any great sum.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Man's Progress in Virtue...