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• Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses.
  Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Antigonus I...
• I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Isis and Osiri...
• To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Iphicrate...
• Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonu
  coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?...
• Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give.
  Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive....
• 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...
• And when the physician said, "Sir, you are an old man," "That happens," replied Pausanias, "because you never were my doctor.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax...
• Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine
  and he is very happy who hath this only....
• Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people,.
  .. he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?...