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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...
• A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed.
  He answered, "In silence." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Archelau...
• When asked what wine he liked to drink, he replied, "That which belongs to another.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• It appears that after his death, Albert Einstein found himself working as the doorkeeper at the Pearly Gates.
  One slow day, he found that he had time to chat with the new entrants....
• It appears that after his death, Albert Einstein found himself working as the doorkeeper at the Pearly Gates.
  One slow day, he found that he had time to chat with the new entrants....
• 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...
• 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....