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• To sing the same tune, as the saying is, is in everything cloying and offensive
  but men are generally pleased with variety....
• Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• It is a point of wisdom to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man you will learn to halt.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...