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• I will show," said Agesilaus, "that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Laconic Apophthegms, Of Agesilaus the Grea...
• When one asked him what boys should learn, "That," said he, "which they shall use when men.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Laconic Apophthegms, Of Agesilaus the Grea...
• Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room
  and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own....
• The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Agesilaus II...
• Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Agesilaus II...
• He said they that were serious in ridiculous matters would be ridiculous in serious affairs.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Roman Apophthegms, Cato the Elde...
• To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Fabiu...
• He doth nothing but talk of his horse; and he makes it a great appropriation to his own good parts, that he can shoe himself.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act i, Sc. 2...
• When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!
  aid he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief....