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• Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Hearing, 6...
• It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome.
  -- Plutarch...
• 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...
• For ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle...
• Being about to pitch his camp in a likely place, and hearing there was no hay to be had for the cattle, "What a life," said he, "is ours, since we must live according to the convenience of asses!
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Philip...
• He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- On the Tranquillity of the Mind...
• 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...
• Menenius Agrippa concluded at length with the celebrated fable
  It once happened that all the other members of a man mutinied against the stomach, which they accused as the only idle, uncontributing part in the whole body, while the rest were put to hardships and the expense of much labour to supply and minister to its appetites....
• SMOP /S-M-O-P/ n. [Simple (or Small) Matter of Programming] 1.
  A piece of code, not yet written, whose anticipated length is significantly greater than its complexity....