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• Remember what Simonides said,--that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Rules for the Preservation of Health, 7...
• Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Rules for the Preservation of Health, 25...
• We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Eating of Flesh, Tract 1...
• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, v, 18...
• To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Fabiu...
• From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Theseu...
• For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caesa...
• When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of oratory, he answered, "Actio
  and which was the second, he replied, "Action;" and which was the third, he still answered, "Action....
• A woman is always buying something. -- Ovid (43 B.C. - 18 A.D.)