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• 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...
• About Pontus there are some creatures of such an extempore being that the whole term of their life is confined within the space of a day
  for they are brought forth in the morning, are in the prime of their existence at noon, grow old at night, and then die....
• A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation.
  After all, it brought forth a mouse. -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book iv, Fable 23, 1...
• To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said, "I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Laconic Apophthegms, Of Agesilaus the Grea...
• I will show," said Agesilaus, "that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Laconic Apophthegms, Of Agesilaus the Grea...
• As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Lysande...
• It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
  -- Life of Agesilaus II...
• Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room
  and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own....
• 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...