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• Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all. -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle
• For ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle...
• Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practise.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle...
• It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Marcus Cato...
• You speak truth," said Themistocles; "I should never have been famous if I had been of Seriphu
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Themistocle...
• To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. -- Plutarch
• It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,--nay, it is a very easy matte
  but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome....
• 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...