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• Like the man who threw a stone at a bitch, but hit his step-mother, on which he exclaimed, "Not so bad!
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- On the Tranquillity of the Mind...
• Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine
  and he is very happy who hath this only....
• The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- On the Tranquillity of the Mind...
• 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....
• The chief good is the suspension of the judgment, which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pyrrho, xi...
• Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of world
  and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answe...
• As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Platonic Questions, i...
• As Caesar was at supper the discourse was of death,--which sort was the best.
  That," said he, "which is unexpected." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Caesa...
• Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Which are the most crafty, Water or Land Animals? 7...