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• When the candles are out all women are fair. -- Plutarch
• When the lights are out, all women are fair. -- Plutarch
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  ... Yet," went he on, "as little as we are, when we fall out with each other, the city of Byzantium is not big enough to hold us....
• There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life
  Know thyself", and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend....
• Cato said, "I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Political Precep...
• When all candles bee out, all cats be gray. -- John Heywood (c.
  1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. v...
• When the lights are out...all women are beautiful.
• 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...