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• Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caius Mariu...
• As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Lysande...
• Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, "She can choose best," and so took both away with him.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Lysande...
• No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the Legislature is in session.
  -- Lysander Spoone...
• King Agis said, "The Lacedaemonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Agi...
• Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• 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...
• All Governments, including the worst on earth and the most tyrannical on earth, are free Governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.
  -- Lysander Spoone...
• The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.