Related:

• When he was wounded with an arrow in the ankle, and many ran to him that were wont to call him a god
  he said smiling, "That is blood, as you see, and not, as Homer saith, 'such humour as distils from blessed gods....
• The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pelopida...
• Lysander said, "Where the lion's skin will not reach, it must be pieced with the fox's.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Lysande...
• 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...
• Euripides was wont to say, "Silence is an answer to a wise man.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Bashfulne...
• 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...
• Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give.
  Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive....
• A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies.
  Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?...