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• There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of those whom God is slow to punish...
• Young men," said Caesar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Caesar Augustu...
• As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Platonic Questions, i...
• I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Isis and Osiri...
• The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all eve
  the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature....
• AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Marcus Cato...
• So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle...