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• He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- On the Tranquillity of the Mind...
• 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...
• When he was wounded with an arrow in the ankle, and many ran to him that were wont to call him a god
  he said smiling, "That is blood, as you see, and not, as Homer saith, 'such humour as distils from blessed gods....
• Young men," said Caesar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Caesar Augustu...
• When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I 'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Plistarchu...
• Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caius Mariu...
• 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...
• There are two jazz musicians who are great buddies.
  They hang out and play together for years, virtually inseparable....
• A man from AI walked across the mountains to SAIL to see the Master, Knuth.
  When he arrived, the Master was nowhere to be found....