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• Anacharsis said a man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible favours and blessings of Fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, 11...
• Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachma
  and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me....
• Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Demosthene...
• As Athenodorus was taking his leave of Caesar, "Remember," said he, "Caesar, whenever you are angry, to say or do nothing before you have repeated the four-and-twenty letters to yourself.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Caesar Augustu...
• He preferred an honest man that wooed his daughter, before a rich man.
  I would rather," said Themistocles, "have a man that wants money than money that wants a man....
• Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people,.
  .. he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?...
• He said that in his whole life he most repented of three thing
  one was that he had trusted a secret to a woman; another, that he went by water when he might have gone by land...
• 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...
• 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...