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• When Hermodotus in his poems described Antigonus as the son of Helios, "My valet-de-chambre," said he, "is not aware of this.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Isis and Osiri...
• Cato said, "I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Political Precep...
• 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....
• It is a difficult thing for a man to resist the natural necessity of mortal passions.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of those whom God is slow to punish...
• When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I 'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Plistarchu...
• 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...
• My Lost Causes" by Noah Veil
• Dare to look up to God and say, "Make use of me for the future as Thou wilt.
  I am of the same mind; I am one with Thee. I refuse nothing which seems good to Thee....
• No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Fortune...