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• Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachma
  and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me....
• Laughing at his own son, who got his mother, and by his mother's means his father also, to indulge him, he told him that he had the most power of any one in Greece
  For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians, your mother commands me, and you command your mother....
• Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage.
  And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses....
• Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Agesilaus II...
• The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pelopida...
• Philip being arbitrator betwixt two wicked persons, he commanded one to fly out of Macedonia and the other to pursue him.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Philip...
• When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Demaratu...
• Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Phocio...
• From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Theseu...