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• Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Grea...
• 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...
• Zeno first started that doctrine that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
  -- 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...
• King Agis said, "The Lacedaemonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Agi...
• And this," said Caesar, "you know, young man, is more disagreeable for me to say than to do.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caesa...
• I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch
  han that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow....
• Anacharsis said a man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible favours and blessings of Fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, 11...
• When Eudaemonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he
  but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets....