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• A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax...
• To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Iphicrate...
• When Hermodotus in his poems described Antigonus as the son of Helios, "My valet-de-chambre," said he, "is not aware of this.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Isis and Osiri...
• Young men," said Caesar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Caesar Augustu...
• You are old, Father William," the young man said, "All your papers these days look the same
  Those William's would be better unread -- Do these facts never fill you with shame?...
• You are old, Father William," the young man said, "All your papers these days look the same
  Those William's would be better unread -- Do these facts never fill you with shame?...
• A man walked into a haberdashery and said to the owner, "Did you just see me come in?
  The owner replied, "Yes, sir, I did." "Ahhhh!" the man said....
• Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he were going to strike, Themistocles said, "Strike, if you will
  but hear." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Themistocle...