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• Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pompey...
• After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do.
  Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws....
• 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...
• Themistocles said that he certainly could not make use of any stringed instrume
  could only, were a small and obscure city put into his hands, make it great and glorious....
• Caesar said to the soothsayer, "The ides of March are come
  who answered him calmly, "Yes, they are come, but they are not past....
• 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...
• 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...
• He made one of Antipater's recommendation a judge; and perceiving afterwards that his hair and beard were coloured
  he removed him, saying, "I could not think one that was faithless in his hair could be trusty in his deeds....
• I was saying, continued the Rocket, I was saying - What was I saying?
  You were talking about yourself, replied the Roman Candle....