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• From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Theseu...
• T is a wise saying, Drive on your own track.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• To sing the same tune, as the saying is, is in everything cloying and offensive
  but men are generally pleased with variety....
• Xenophanes said, "I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Bashfulne...
• Have in readiness this saying of Solon, "But we will not give up our virtue in exchange for their wealth.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- How to profit by our Enemie...
• When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!
  aid he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief....
• Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Agesilaus II...
• Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Alcibiade...
• Cato instigated the magistrates to punish all offenders, saying that they that did not prevent crimes when they might, encouraged them.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Roman Apophthegms, Cato the Elde...