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• 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...
• Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Symposiacs, Book viii, Question viii...
• That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
  -- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book viii, Letter ix, 3...
• Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Platonic Questions, viii, 4...
• As Athenodorus was taking his leave of Caesar, "Remember," said he, "Caesar, whenever you are angry, to say or do nothing before you have repeated the four-and-twenty letters to yourself.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Caesar Augustu...
• Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all. -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle
• For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Platonic Questions, i...
• Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Coriolanu...