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• It is a difficult thing for a man to resist the natural necessity of mortal passions.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of those whom God is slow to punish...
• AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• When asked why he parted with his wife, Caesar replied, "I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caesa...
• 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...
• Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Rules for the Preservation of Health, 25...
• Young men," said Caesar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Caesar Augustu...
• Menenius Agrippa concluded at length with the celebrated fable
  It once happened that all the other members of a man mutinied against the stomach, which they accused as the only idle, uncontributing part in the whole body, while the rest were put to hardships and the expense of much labour to supply and minister to its appetites....
• As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Platonic Questions, i...
• Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...