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• Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Coriolanu...
• The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life
  Know thyself", and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend....
• The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Consolation to Apolloniu...
• Empedocles says that the greater part of the members of animals were generated by chance.
  .. What, then, hinders but that the parts in Nature may also thus arise [from necessity]?...
• Themistocles said that he certainly could not make use of any stringed instrume
  could only, were a small and obscure city put into his hands, make it great and glorious....
• The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
  -- Of the Training of Children by Plutarch...
• The most perfect soul, says Heraclitus, is a dry light, which flies out of the body as lightning breaks from a cloud.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Romulu...
• As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Lysande...