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• The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pelopida...
• We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. -- Frank A. Clark
• Give us the man," shouts the multitude, "who will step forward and take the responsibility.
  He is instantly the idol, the lord, and the king among men....
• For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caesa...
• There is one called Bob among them. He is mine.
• There's a fungus among us.
• Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Symposiacs, Book viii, Question ix...
• I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
  We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers....
• I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
  we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers....