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• No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Fortune...
• For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caesa...
• Anacharsis said a man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible favours and blessings of Fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, 11...
• And this," said Caesar, "you know, young man, is more disagreeable for me to say than to do.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caesa...
• 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...
• Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Political Precep...
• We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Eating of Flesh, Tract 1...
• He preferred an honest man that wooed his daughter, before a rich man.
  I would rather," said Themistocles, "have a man that wants money than money that wants a man....
• I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch
  han that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow....