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• Euripides was wont to say, "Silence is an answer to a wise man.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Bashfulne...
• One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Bashfulne...
• Xenophanes said, "I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Bashfulne...
• As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Lysande...
• They say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Zeno, lii...
• The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.
  -- British Army Journal 1949...
• The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.
  -- The British Army Journal...
• Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Alcibiade...
• For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Against Colote...